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CURRENT AFFAIRS - SEPTEMBER-2009
1. Which country won Nehru Cup International
Football Tournament 2009?
India
India defeated Syria by 5-4 (penalty shootout) in the
finals on August 31, 2009.
Goal-keeper Subroto Paul, who saved three penalties
to become India’s saviour, was awarded the man of the
match of the final.
India won this cup two times, 2007 & 2009.
9. Who is appointed as the new Air Officer-in-Charge
Personnel (AOP)of the Indian Air Force (IAF)?
Air Marshal KJ Mathews
10. Country which has been expelled from the
Commonwealth after failing to announce plans to hold
elections in 2010?
Fiji
2. Who won the Man of the Tournament award of
Nehru Cup Football title-2009?
Bhaichung Bhutia, Indian Captain
11. Distinguished scientist and the man in charge of
the development of missile and strategic systems in the
country, who is appointed as the chief of the Defence
Research and Development Organisation(DRDO)?
Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat
3. Which scientist is elected as the new President of
International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)?
Dr. Madhavan Nair, Chief of Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO).
12. Who is appointed as the vice chief of Indian Army?
Lt General P C Bhardwaj
4. Who is the new Air Officer Commanding –in-Chief
of Southern Air Command of India?
Air Marshal Sumit Mukerjee. He is the only pilot in
the history of IAF to have commanded units with the
Mig-21,Mig-23U, Mig-25, Mig-27 and Mig-29
aircraft.
13. Bollywood Actor who has been appointed by Life
insurance Company Max New York Life as the brand
ambassador for Max Vijay, a brand specifically
targeted at providing financial inclusion to the
underprivileged masses?
Amitabh Bachchan
14. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister who feared dead
5. Who is appointed as the Flag Officer Commanding- after his Bell 430 chopper crash-landed about 40
in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command?
nautical miles east of the Kurnool mountainous area of
Vice-Admiral K.N. Sushil
Andra Pradesh?
Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy
6. Who will act as a bowling consultant for the Kolkata
Knight Riders during the third edition of the Indian
15. The first Iranian female cabinet minister who is
Premier League (IPL) next year?
appointed since the foundation of the Islamic Republic
Vasim Akram
30 years?
Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi
7. India achieved a Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Iranian parliament approves Marzieh as new health
growth rate of how much percentage during April-June minister despite opposition from hardline MPs and
2009?
clerics.
6.1%
16. Who won the Man of the Series Award in the
8. The Indian-American fashion designer who charged recent 20-20 cricket series between Sri Lanka and New
with sexually assaulting seven girls was sentenced to
Zealand which is held in Sri Lanka?
59 years of imprisonment on Aug 31?
Jesse Ryder(New Zealand).
Anand Jon Alexander
New Zealand won the series by 2-0.
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17. Lok Sabha Secretary General who was recently
given a year's extension by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira
Kumar?
P.D.T. Acharya
18. Who took over charge as Additional General
Manager, Southern Railway?
Shri A.K. Gupta
19. Athletes who won $1 million Golden League
jackpot which is given by IAAF (International
Association of Athletics Federations) to anyone who
wins all six of the premier European meets?
Yelena Isinbayeva, Kenenisa Bekele and Sanya
Richards
20. Who is the new Brand Ambassador of popular
Levis Jeans?
Priyanka Chopra.
21. U.S.President Barack Obama's adviser and an
administration official specializing in environmentally
friendly "green jobs" with the White House Council on
Environmental Quality who resigned amid controversy
over past inflammatory statements?
Van Jones
22. Who has topped the list of world's 10 top earning
cricketers compiled by Forbes magazine ?
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian skipper
Raking in USD 10 million, Dhoni is at the top of the
chart followed by Tendulkar at the second spot with
earnings worth USD 8 million in the list of 'The
World's Top-Earning Cricketers' . While Yuvraj Singh
and Dravid are at the third and fourth spot,
respectively, Ganguly and Australian cricketer Ricky
Ponting share the sixth place.
23. Former Chief Minister of Punjab and former
governor of Haryana and Orissa , who died recently
after a prolonged illness?
Harcharan Singh Brar
24. National Film Awards for the year 2007-2008?
(Available in Section-2)
2009. Geet Sethi won the title in 1992.
26. Australian Cricket player who retired from
international Twenty20 cricket recently?
Ricky Ponting
27. The first African country to qualify for the 2010
World Cup Football which is to be held in South
Africa?
Ghana
28. Which country leads world in foreign weapons
sales in the year 2008?
United States of America. America accounted for more
than two-thirds of foreign weapons sales in 2008.
29. Who participated as the chief guest at the 19th
Independence Day celebrations of Tajikistan which
was held at Dushanbe?
Pratibha Patil, President of India
30. Reserve Bank recently decided to introduce
polymer banknotes of which denomination whose life
span would be 4 times the normal currency notes and
would be difficult to imitate.?
Rs 10
Polymer notes were first introduced in Australia to
safeguard against counterfeiting of currency
31. The Sri Lankan government has ordered a senior
United Nations diplomat to leave the country after
accusing him of partiality towards the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Name of that spoke
person of UNICEF?
James Elder, an Australian national.
32. Woman journalist of Sudan convicted of public
indecency for wearing trousers outdoors was freed
recently despite her own desire to serve a month in
prison as protest against Sudan's draconian morality
laws?
Lubna Hussein
33. Name of the Buddha statue gifted by Mahatma
Gandhi to one of his Irish friend, which was sold in
London in the auction for Rs 5.47 lakh (6,840
25. Who has become the second Indian after Geet
pounds)?
Sethi to win the World’s Billiards Championship?
Bodhisattva.
Pankaj Advani
The statue was possibly of the Bodhisattva of
He beat defending champion Mark Russel 2030-1253 compassion Avalokitesvara, a seated 13-inch-high
to win the World Professional Billiards Championship- bronze Buddha statue.
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Gandhiji gave this statue to his Irish friend Emma
Harker when she volunteered for relief work among
the poor in flooded areas of Bihar and Orissa.
34. Who was the captain of Indian team for the 23rd
FIBA Asia Women Basketball Championship held in
Chennai?
Geethu Anna Jose
42. High Court Lawyer, who has been appointed
Assistant Solicitor General of India for conducting
Central government cases other than the cases of
income tax and the Railway Department before the
High Court?
T.P.M. Ibrahim Khan
43. An island of Mexico which was clearly visible on
national and international maps until the middle of the
35. Venezuela recognized the independence of two
20th century has gone missing now?
countries on September 10, 2009. Name that countries. Bermeja Island. This island is strategically important
South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
as it could give Mexico a claim to millions of dollars
Earlier, Russia and Nicaragua also recognized
worth of oil deposits.
independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
44. Cuban revolutionary leader, who has died in
36. New York Governor David Paterson recently
Havana at the age of 82, had been among only three
signed into law a bill that bans use of a word in
surviving rebel leaders who still bore the honorary title
documents used by state agencies, public authorities
“Commander of the Revolution.”
and municipalities when referring to persons of Asian Juan Almeida Bosque
or Pacific islander heritage. Which word?
"Oriental"
45. World's oldest person, a woman who was born in
1894 died in California at the age of 115 gained a
37. Indian Musician who has been invited to perform
measure of fame when she voted for Barack Obama for
live along with the famous Pussycat Dolls — a pop girl U.S. president?
group and dance ensemble- on the occasion of the
Gertrude Baines
India’s historic participation in the America’s world
famous Polo Cup?
46. Which country will host the 6th SAF football
A.R.Rahman
matches scheduled for December 1-15 of this year?
Bangladesh. Eight teams of South Asian countries will
38. Former Taiwan President who has been found
take part in these matches.
guilty of corruption and sentenced to life in prison?
Chen Shui-bian
47. First Indian to reach semi-finals of World Boxing
Championships and fist Indian to win a medal in the
39. Indian film which is included in the “Festival of
same event?
festival” section in the Cairo International film festival Vijender Kumar
that will commence on the tenth of November?
He won Bronze medal in the World Boxing
Raman. The film is directed by Dr.Biju.
Championships and becomes the first Indian to do so.
40. Which footballer won the annual VP Sathyan
Memorial Award?
Mohanraj
Chennai-based, Kerala Sports Persons Association
(KESPA) has picked Tamil Nadu footballer Mohanraj
for this award.
41. Former president of BCCI who served as the
chairman of the national selection committee
(including when Sachin Tendulkar was first picked in
the Indian team in 1989) died at the age of 73
following a prolonged illness recently?
Raj Singh Dungarpur
48. Which club won their maiden IFA Shield football
tournament title?
Churchill Brothers, Goa
They beating local giant Mohun Bagan 2-0
49. Nat West One day cricket series between England
and Australia won by ?
Australia. They won the series 6-1.
50. Who has been selected for this year’s Mathrubhumi
Literary Award of Rs.2 Lakhs instituted by the
Malayalam daily “Mathrubhumi”?
Kovilan
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51. Name of the 14-year-old astrophysicist from
Kozhikode, Kerala who recently participated in the
NASA space camp where a model rocket designed by
her was launched?
Hannan Binth Hashim.
She has prepared a research paper titled ‘Absolute
Theory of Zero' which questions the accuracy of many
existing theories like Albert Einstein's ‘Theory of
relativity' and the ‘Big Bang Theory'.
Indian nominees to the Lok Sabha -- taking Kerala's
strength in the Lower House of the Indian Parliament
to 21?
Charles Dias.
59. Which country won the tri-nation Compaq Cup
(One Day Cricket Series) held in Sri Lanka?
India.
India beat Sri Lanka in the final by 46 runs. New
Zealand was the third team.
Sachin Tendulkar won Man of the Match Award for
52. An American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel his 138 runs in final.
laureate who has been deemed the father of the Green Man of the Series: Sachin Tendulkar
Revolution died at the age of 95, on September 12,
2009?
60. Who is appointed as the Managing Director of Agri
Norman Borlaug.
co-operative National Agricultural Cooperative
He was one of only six people to have won the Nobel Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED)?
Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the C V Ananda Bose
Congressional Gold Medal. He was also a recipient of
the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian 61. The India Today Group has recently adjudged
honor.
which state of India as the best State with regard to the
law and order situation.
53. Which film won the Golden Lion for best picture at Kerala
the Venice film festival?
"Lebanon"
62. Who won US Open Men’s Double Title?
Hard-hitting Israeli war movie "Lebanon" is directed
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy
by Samuel Maoz
They won the Grand Slam title after defeating Mahesh
Best Actor Award: Colin Firth
Bhupathi and Mark Knowles in the US Open men’s
Best Actress Award: Ksenia Rappoport
doubles final. This is 10th Grant slam title for Leander
Paes.
54. Who won the Silver Lion prize for best director at
the Venice film festival?
63. Who won the US Open Women’s title 2009?
Shirin Neshat
Kim Clijsters
She won this award for the film "Women without
She beat 19-year-old Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark,
Men," based on a banned book about Iran in the 1950s. 7-5, 6-3, in the final.
She become the first unseeded woman to win the US
55. ‘Basava Sri’ award instituted by Murugha mutt
Open and the first mother to win a major title since
won by ?
1980.
P.T.Usha.
64. Who Clinch US Open Women’s Doubles Title?
56. Noted football commentator who was found dead Serena Williams and Venus Williams
in his hotel a day after the final of the IFA Shield?
They took over top seeds Cara Black of Zimbabwe and
Noel De Lima Leitao
Liezel Huber of the United States in straight sets of 62, 6-2 to clinch the women’s doubles title at US Open.
57. French photographer who was one of France's
giants of photography, particularly famous for his
65. Who won US Open men's title?
images of post-war Paris in the 1940s and 1950s died Juan Martin del Potro
recently at the age of 99?
Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina battled back to beat
Willy Ronis
five-times champion Roger Federer 3-6, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6,
6-2 in the final
58. Who has been named as one of the two Anglo
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66. A juror in the fashion designer Anand Jon rape trial
who was fined $1,000 and sentenced to 120 hours of
community service for trying to strike up a romance
with Sanjana, the sister of Anand Jon who was
sentenced to 59 years?
Alvin Dymally
67. Who has been selected by the Audit Bureau of
Circulations (ABC) to head the operations of the
organisation as the Chairman for the period of 200910?
Mr Subroto Chattopadhyay
68. Name of the Olympic medal-winning boxer who
has been found dead by his manager?
Darren Sutherland
Sutherland has won a bronze medal for Ireland at the
2008 Beijing Olympics.
75. Who is now officially the tallest man walking the
planet by the Guinness World Records?
Sultan Kosen 27, from Turkey was recognized as the
tallest person(8 foot 1 inch (2.47 meter)) in the world
on September 17,2009.
76. Who is the new Accountant General of Kerala
State?
Maha Lekshmi Menon
77. Indian American technocrat who has been
appointed by U.S.President Barack Obama to a key
administration post dealing with energy research?
Arun Majumdar
78. Footballer of Argentina who signed a two-year
contract extension with Barcelona until the summer of
2016.
Lionel Messi
69. Who will be the chairman of the Fourth Finance
Commission constituted by the Government of Kerala? 79. The Indians who have figured in a list of 60 "most
Dr.M.A.Umman
influential foreigners" who have played a profound
role in shaping the way over 1.2-billion people of
70. Name of the sacred food offered to devotees at the modern China think and live?
Lord Venkateswara Temple in Andhra Pradesh which Jawaharlal Nehru and Rabindranath Tagore
has been awarded geographical copyright that bars
others from naming or marketing the sweetmeat
80. Which TV series won the 2009 Emmy award for
preparation under the same name?
best comedy?
Tirupati laddoo
30 Rock.
71. Name of the most expensive bike so far launched
in India by the Japanese bike giant Yamaha?
Yamaha VMAX
This 1,680cc super bike VMAX, priced at Rs. 20 lakh
(ex-showroom Delhi).
81. Which TV series won the 2009 Emmy award for
best drama?
Mad Men
82. Who is the new captain of Delhi Dare Devils Team
?
72. Person from Kerala who has been honored with the Gautham Gambhir
highest award of Bharat Scouts and Guides ‘Silver
Elephant Award 2007-08’.?
83. The Indian tennis star who has confirmed Indian
Shri M. C. Ramadas
team berth in the Davis Cup World Group after he
ousted South Africa's Rik Voest in the reverse singles
73. Who is named as Japan's new Prime Minister?
match of the Davis Cup tie ?
Yukio Hatoyama. He will be named the 93rd Prime
Somdev Dewarman
Minister of Japan.
Indian team has made into World Group playoff after a
long period of 11 years.
74. Indonesia's most wanted Islamist militant, who was
killed in a police shoot-out in Central Java of
84. Name of 13-year-old girl from Lucknow who
Indonesia ?
addressed the United Nations Climate Change Summit
Noordin Mohammad Top.
in New York?
Yugratna Srivastav
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85. Who are the winners of Durand Cup-2009?
Churchill Brothers. They beat Mohun Bagan in the
final. Churchill Brothers had earlier won the trophy in
2007
93. A prominent Indian American agricultural
scientist, who has been nominated for the post of the
Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the U.S.
Trade Representative by the US President Barack
Obama?
Islam A. Siddiqui
86. Name of Indian-origin woman who was sentenced
to 33 years in jail - one of the longest jail terms handed
out to a woman in Britain - for murdering her two
94. India's maiden spacecraft, which has discovered
teenaged daughters in a frenzied knife attack at her
water on the lunar surface?
home in Cambridgeshire?
Chandrayaan-1
Rekha Kumari-Baker
95. First mixed-gender university of Saudi Arabia
87. The 63-year-old magazine, which has covered
which opened recently?
business and politics since World War II, will shut
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
down in December 2009, struggling with losses as
(KAUST)
readers and advertisers move to the Internet?
“Far Eastern Economic Review”
96. Who is the chairman of Subordinate Legislation
Committee of Indian Loksabha?
88. Name of India's 16th remote sensing satellite
P.Karunakaran , M.P from Kerala
successfully launched by ISRO through its space
carrier Plar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in just
97. Which country won the 23rd Asian Women's
twenty minutes?
Basketball Championships held in Chennai, India?
Oceansat-2.
China. They beat South Korea in the final
ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C14
successfully launched the 960 kg Indian remote
98. Indian who won bronze medal in the freestyle 74
sensing satellite Oceansat-2 and six nano satellites for kg category in the prestigious World Wrestling
international customers into a polar Sun Synchronous Championship held in Denmark?
Orbit (SSO). This was the fifteenth successful flight of Ramesh Kumar
PSLV.
India made history in wrestling after a gap of 32 years,
when Ramesh Kumar won bronze medal in World
89. Who has been selected for this year’s Vallathol
Wrestling Championship.
Award which carries a purse of Rs.1,11,111 and
citation?
99. Who was elected president of the Indian
Kavalam Narayana Panicker
Newspaper Society for 2009-10, at the 70th annual
general meeting of the INS?
90. The much anticipated small car for India which
T. Venkattram Reddy. He is the chairman of the
was unveiled in Delhi by Ford Motor Company?
Hyderabad-based Deccan Chronicle.
Ford Figo
100. Who will head the Committee of Privileges which
91. Who is the new director of United Nations
has been reconstituted by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
Kumar?
(UNESCO)?
P.C.Chacko, M.P.from Kerala
Irina Bokova, Bulgarian diplomat
101. Britain’s Indian-origin Business Minister, who is
92. The adventurers who set a new world record after set to step down, appointed as the UK’s representative
successfully landing on Mount Everest 16,800 ft above to G-20?
sea level?
Shriti Vadera
Ramesh Chandra Tripathi, Leo Dickinson and Ralph
Mitchell.
102. Who was elected as regional chairman (Kerala)of
They jumped from an altitude of 20,000 ft to land at
the Indian Newspaper Society for 2009-10?
the world’s highest drop zone, near Mount Everest.
P.V.chandran
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103. Which political party retained power in
Portuguese elections recently ?
Center-left Socialist Party.
Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates is the main
leader of this party.
104. German Chancellor who recorded a resounding
triumph in her country's recent general elections?
Angela Merkel
105. Indian-American Human rights activist who has
won the American Courage Award for her human
rights work in India and the United States?
Mallika Dutt
106. Name of the limited-series pen by Pen-makers
Mont Blanc inspired by Gandhiji’s iconic Dandi March
in 1930 to protest against the British salt tax ?
Mahatma Gandhi Limited Edition-241 series (MGLE241)
This pen costs Rs 11.39 lakh.
107. Who won the women’s singles title in the Yonex
Czech international badminton championship?
Trupti Murgunde
CURRENT AFFAIRS - AUGUST-2009
1. Name the first private firm to be protected by
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which
usually guard government installations?
Infosys, Software giant
7. Which team won the Audi Cup after beating
Manchester United 7-6 in the penalty shootout, after
the 90 minutes ended in a 0-0 draw?
Bayern Munich
2. Which country will be the first international
customer of the Boeing P-8I Poseidon, a variant of the
P-8A Poseidon, US Navy's newest maritime Patrol and
reconnaissance aircraft showcased by the Boeing
Company?
India
8. Former England Football manager and coach, died
at the age of 76 after a long battle with cancer?
Bobby Robson
He led England to the World Cup semis during his
reign from 1982 to 1990.
3. Who won the gold medal in the final of the Men's
100m Freestyle at the FINA Swimming World
Championships in Rome?
Cesar Cielo Filho(Brazil)
9. Who breaks world record in 200-meter medley
(1:54.10), toppling Michael Phelps' previous world
record by 0.13 seconds?
Ryan Lochte
10. Who has been appointed as the next Director
4. Who became Australia's highest test run-scorer on
General (DG) of the Border Security Force (BSF)?
the second day of the third Ashes test against England? Raman Srivastava
Ricky Ponting
Ponting passed Allan Border's mark of 11,174 runs
11. Constitutional expert, who was recently appointed
(156 Tests).
Governor of Gujarat, died recently due to liver
Ponting -11,188 runs (134 Tests)
problems even before he could take up his assignment?
Devendra Nath Dwivedi
5. Country which enforced assisted suicide law that
will apply to people who help their loved ones die as
12. Which country won the Emerging Players Cricket
well as to those who help them die abroad?
Tournament title, defeating South Africa by 17 runs in
Britain
the final ?
India.
6. Name the first Sikh soldiers who are included the
Virat Kohli cracked a rollicking century (104)in the
security wing of British Queen Elizabeth II?
final that helped India to win the title.
Simranjit Singh and Lance Cpl. Sarvjit Singh
They are the first Sikhs to take part in patrols outside
13. Indian men's doubles pair who won the New
the queen's residence and to stand watch over the
Zealand Open Grand Prix title in Auckland, New
Crown jewels at the Tower of London across town.
Zealand?
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Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas
14. Who won the 100-meter butterfly at the world
swimming championships in Rome, setting a World
record to become the first swimmer to eclipse the
event’s 50- second barrier?
Michael Phelps
15. Asia's first Female President and former President
of the Republic of the Philippines who was hailed as a
modern-day Joan of Arc died recently due to colon
cancer?
Corazon Cojuangco Aquino
16. 16th World Junior Women's Team Squash
Championship held in Chennai won by ?
Egypt.
Heba el-Turk and Nour el-Sherbini of Egypt beat Hong
Kong 2-0 in the final match.
17. Who won the World Junior Men’s Squash
Championship title ?
Mohamed El Shorbagy (Egypt)
18. Who has set the 38th world record of the world
swimming championships in the men's 50-meter
backstroke.?
Liam Tancock(Britain)
19. Who set the world record in the 50-meter
breaststroke at the U.S. Open National
Championships?
Jessica Hardy
She split a time of 29.95 seconds to beat the previous
mark of 30.09 set by Yuliya Efimova of Russia at the
world championships.
20. Name of the nano satellite which is recently
developed by a group of students at IIT Kanpur that
provides real-time data on drought, flood, vegetation
and forestation?
Jugnu.
The nanosatellite costed Rs 2.5 crore to develop and
will be handed over to ISRO. Santanu Agrawal, an M
Phil student headed the successful team of whiz kids of
IIT Kanpur.
21. Bollywood actress who selected Elesh
Parujanwala, a Canadian businessman from Toronto,
as her future bridegroom from among the three
finalists in the reality show broadcast on NDTV
Imagine.?
Rakhi Sawant
22. Prominent Indian social activist, who has done
pioneering work for "development of rural
communities", was named along with five others for
the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2009,
considered as Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Deep Joshi
Other five 2009 Magsaysay awardees:
Krisana Kraisintu (Thailand)
Yu Xiaogang (China)
Antonio Oposa, Jr, (Philippines),
Ma Jun (China)
Ka Hsaw Wa (Burma)
23. Who is the new Chairman and Managing Director
of GAIL (India) Ltd, the country's largest gas
transportation company?
B C Tripathi
24. The five-match one-day Cricket series between Sri
Lanka and Pakistan held in Sri Lanka won by?
Srilanka (3-2)
Thilan Thushara was named Man of the Series.
25. A prominent Gandhian who made a mark in the
history of the national movement by gifting her gold
ornaments to Mahatma Gandhi as a 17-year-old, died
recently ?
Kaumudi teacher
Hailed by the Mahatma himself as a symbol of
renunciation, Kaumudi voluntarily donated her
ornaments to Gandhi during his visit to Vatakara , in
Kerala in 1934
26. Who has bagged the prestigious UNESCO King
Sejong Literacy Prize 2009?
Khabar Lahariya, a fortnightly newspaper in Hindi run
by rural women in Uttar Pradesh won the prestigious
award. Nirantar, a non-governmental organisation,
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which runs "Khabar Lahariya" a fortnightly newspaper John Hughes
in Hindi
35. Which country dominated the Asian Youth Chess
27. Noted South Indian actor and national award
Championship, topping seven of the 12 categories as
winner who had been closely associated with pro-Left the event concluded at the Tivoli Garden Resort, New
cultural and intellectual movements in the state of
Delhi?
Kerala, died recently ?
India.
Murali. He won the state award for the best actor thrice India won a total of eight gold, seven silver and eight
and the national award in 2001 for his performance in bronze. Vietnam won two gold, while Kazakhstan,
Malayalam movie “Naithukaran”.
UAE and Iran won one each
28. India Government has approved the acquisition of
five Russian early warning choppers in a bid to
strengthen the Navy's capabilities to detect airborne
and surface-based maritime threats. Name of that
chopper?
Kamov-31
36. Who is appointed as the army chief of Nepal?
Lt. Gen. Chhatraman Singh Gurung
37. Indian-American, expert in Intellectual Property,
who is appointed for a key post in the US Commerce
Department by the president Barack Obama?
RO Khanna.
29. The last known surviving British soldier to have
He is an expert in Intellectual Property will work to
fought in the First World War trenches, died at the age open foreign markets to American technology.
of 111?
Harry Patch
38. Which team won the Italian Super Cup beating
Inter Milan in the final by 2-1?
30. The Pakistani Taliban leader who was killed
Lazio
recently in a CIA missile strike?
Baitullah Mehsud
39. Which country won the World junior volleyball
championship (Under 21) in 2009?
31. Who is the first Spanish woman to become the
Brazil. They beat Cuba in the final. Brazil had won the
judge of the Supreme Court of United States?
title in 2001 & 2007
Sonia Sotomayor
and runners up in 2003 & 2005. Cuba had first time
became runners-up in this tournament. India lost in the
32. Hockey Test series between India and Belgium is
Semifinals and had to satisfy with the fourth position.
won by?
India
40. The Captain of the Spanish football team Espanyol,
India clinch the three-match hockey series 2-1
who has died from a heart attack at the age of 26?
Dani Jarque
33. Who is appointed as the Managing Director and
Chief Executive of ING Vysya Bank for a period of
41. Who won the Man of the Match award in the
three years?
fourth Ashes Test ?
Shailendra Bhandari
Marcus North
He won Man of the Match for his brilliant hundred in
34. Writer-director, Hollywood’s youth impresario of the first innings.
the 1980s and ’90s who captured the teen and preteen
market with such favorites as “The Breakfast Club,”
42. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president who swornSixteen Candles”,”Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and
in as Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab for the second
“Home Alone, died recently ?
time this year?
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Sukhbir Singh Badal
43. Which team won the Community Shield football
title beating Manchester United 4-1 on penalties at
Wembley after the teams drew 2-2 ?
Chelsea
50. Coach of West Indies who was sacked by the West
Indies Cricket board ahead of the Champions Trophy?
John Dyson
51. American who was sentenced to seven years in
prison but then deported after swimming to the
lakeside home of detained Burmese pro-democracy
leader Aung San Suu Kyi?
John William Yettaw
44. Sister of former U.S.President John F. Kennedy,
who carried on the family's public service tradition by
founding the Special Olympics and championing the
rights of the mentally disabled, died recently at the age 52. Zimbabwe's player who equaled Saeed Anwar's
of 88?
record highest individual one-day international score
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
of 194 in the match against Bangladesh?
Charles Coventry
45. Name the bowler played for Holland in the recent
Twenty20 World Cup , who is recently included in the 53. Chinese ace who is poised to become the first
Australian team for the 20-20 match against England? player in World Badminton Championship history to
Dirk Nannes
win three successive men's singles titles?
Lin Dan
46. Name the TV crime show host who faces jail after
allegedly ordering murders in a bid to boost television 54. Who won the Rogers Cup doubles title beating
ratings?
Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram in Montreal.
Wallace Souza
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles.
He is accused of arranging crimes and then
broadcasting exclusive footage of the scenes.
55. Who won Britain's first ever World Championship
heptathlon gold medal at the 12th IAAF World
47. One of the most revered guitarists in history and
Athletics Championships?
the father of the electric guitar, who passed away at the Jessica Ennis
age of 94.
Les Paul
56. Who broke the world record at the 12th IAAF
World Athletics Championships in Berlin after running
48. Ashok Chakra, the nation’s highest peacetime
the 100 meter sprint in just 9.58 seconds?
award for gallantry on the eve of Independence Day is Usain Bolt
given to ?
Major Mohit Sharma(Posthumous)
57. Who broke the world record at the 12th IAAF
Major D. Sreeram Kumar
World Athletics Championships in Berlin after running
the 200 meter sprint in just 19.19seconds?
49. Keerthi Chakra Awardees:
Usain Bolt
1.Major Amit Oscar Fernandes of 7 Maratha Light
Infantry.
58. Who won women's shot put gold at the 12th World
2.Major Deepak Tewari of Electronics and Mechanical Athletic Championships in Berlin?
Engineers Corps serving with 14 Rashtriya Rifles in
Valerie Vili from New Zealand
Kashmir.
3.Paratrooper Shabir Ahmed Malik.
59. Who becomes the first farmer of India to receive
4.Naik Rishikesh Gurjar of 10 Rashtriya Rifles
pension implemented by a state?
(Rajput).
N. Krishna Kurup. He is the first farmer to receive
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pension which is implemented by Government of
Kerala
maiden century (119) in the debut Ashes Test match.
England won the Ashes (2-1) .
Man of the Series: Andrew Strauss (England)
Michael Clark (Australia)
60. Who won the Cincinnati Open Tennis title after
beating top-ranked Russian Dinara Safina in the final ?
Jelena Jankovic
69. Ethiopian Olympic Champion who won the gold
medal in the 5000m and 10000m race in Berlin,
61. Scottish tennis player has won the Montreal
marking the first time an athlete has ever won distance
Masters event in Canada beating Argentina's Juan
double at the IAAF World Athletics Championships?
Martin del Potro in the final?
Kenenisa Bekele
Andy Murray
70. The controversial book written by former union
62. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former
minister and B.J.P leader Jaswant singh that eulogising
president of South Korea who was crucial in
Mohd Ali Jinnah ?
promoting the country's "Sunshine Policy" aiming at a “Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence”
detente with North Korea died recently?
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expelled Jaswant Singh
Kim Dae Jung
from the primary membership of the party days after
the release of his book praising Mohammad Ali Jinnah,
63. Who is the Man of the series of One Day cricket
the founder of Pakistan.
series between Zimbabwe and Bangladsesh ?
Tamim Iqbal(Bangladesh).Bangladesh won the series 71. Who won the Rogers Cup Women singles title
by 4-1.
beating Maria Sharapova in the final?
Elena Dementieva
64. Who captured the World Athletics Championships
gold medal in the women's 100 meters to claim the title 72. Who won the Cincinnati Open Men’s Tennis title
of "World's Fastest Woman"
after beating Novak Djokovic in the final?
Shelly-Ann Fraser
Roger Federer
65. Who remains the world's most powerful woman for
2009, according to a ranking published by Forbes
magazine?
Angela Merkel, German Chancellor
73. Which team lifts the Spanish Supercup football
title?
Barcelona
They beat Athletic Bilbao 3-0 in the final
The list of the hundred women includes–
Sonia Gandhi (13),
Chanda Kochhar, CEO of ICICI Bank, India.
74. Who won the Miss Universe 2009 title?
Stefania Fernandez, Miss Venezuela
66. Ninety-six-year-old, a Florida resident of Indian
origin who becomes the world's oldest blogger.?
Randall Butisingh
67. Who is appointed as new Pak Taliban chief?
Hakimullah Mehsud
68. Who won the Man of the Match in the final test of
Ashes held at The Ovalin 2009?
Jonathan Trott became man of the match for his
75. Who has been appointed director of the Regional
Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala?
Paul Sebastian
76. Which team won the 2009 Santiago Bernabeu
Trophy by defeating Norwegian side Rosenborg (4-0)
in the final ?
Real Madrid
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77. One of the most influential and longest-serving
senators in the history of America who dies at the age
of 77?
Edward Kennedy. He is the brother of former US
president John F Kennedy.
78. Who becomes the first left-arm spinner to claim
300 Test wickets?
Daniel Vettori(New Zealand)
79. Which country has become Japan's largest trading
partner recently ?
China
of the Year 2009?
Lionel Messi of Barcelona
82. Which team won the UEFA Supercup defeating
Shakhtar Donetsk (1-0)?
Barcelona
83. Who crowned the first ever Miss Bollywood UK at
a gala event in Birmingham ?
Reena Patel
84. Indians who won the mixed doubles title at the
Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold badminton?
Jwala Gutta and Valiyaveetil Diju
80. Who will be appointed as the Guwahati chief
justice.?
Justice Kurian Joseph
85. Who won the Man of the Series in the test series
between Sri Lanka and New Zealand.
Thilan Samaraveera(Sri Lanka)
81. Which player was named the European Club Player Sri Lanka Won the series(2-0)
CURRENT AFFAIRS - JULY-2009
1. India's first "sea bridge" which was officially opened
in Mumbai, which is 5.6-kilometre (3.5-mile) long
covers from?
Bandra to Worli Sea
It is hoped that the 16.5-billion-rupee (340-milliondollar) eight-lane freeway will help cut the 40-minute
journey between the suburbs of Bandra and Worli to
just eight minutes and will ease chronic congestion on
the city's notoriously choked roads. Sea Link was
inaugurated by the ruling Congress party Chief Sonia
Gandhi and named after her late husband and former
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
next foreign secretary of India ?
Nirupama Rao
2. The only known survivor of the crash of the Yemeni
airliner clung to wreckage in the Indian Ocean carrying
153 people (142 passengers, 11 crew members)?
Baya Bakari, 13.year old girl
7. Confederations Cup champions who ousted Spain
from the first place at FIFA world Football ranking,
after one year of leadership?
Brazil
3. The Commission probing the 1992 demolition of
Babri Masjid in Ayodhya which submitted its report to
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently?
Liberhan Commission
5. Former England cricket captain who retired from all
forms of professional cricket recently?
Michael Vaughan
6. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
has recently invited a musician from India to join its
roster of voting members. (i.e. Oscar Academy
Membership). Name that musician?
A.R. Rahman
8. Veteran Japanese diplomat who was elected as new
director-general of the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA)?
Yukiya Amano
9. The state of USA which was declared a fiscal
4. India's ambassador to China, who is appointed as the emergency recently as the Legislature continued
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struggling with a budget for the cash-strapped state?
California
Which is that country?
Honduras
10. Air Marshal of Southern Air Command chief, who
has been appointed as Honorary Air aide de camp
(ADC) to President Pratibha Patel?
S. Radhakrishnan
19. American court has recently banned publication of
a Swedish book promoted as a sequel to JD Salinger's
“The Catcher in the Rye”. ? Name that book and its
author?
“60 Years Later: Coming through the Rye” written by
Fredrik Colting
11. Famous Indian painter whose one painting was
auctioned for a record $2 million at Christie’s in June
2008 passed away recently due to a cardiac ailment?
Tyeb Mehta
20. Who became the first woman Prime Minister of
Croatia?
Jadranka Kosor
12. Prime minister of Croatia and leader of the centreright Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) who resigned 21. The person who served as US defence secretary
recently?
during the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis,
Ivo Sanader
has died recently at the age of 93?
Robert McNamara
13. Who won the Wimbledon Women's Singles title
2009 after defeating Venus Williams in the final?
22. Who won the mixed doubles titles at Wimbledon
Serena Williams
2009?
Mark Knowles of the Bahamas and Anna-Lena
14. Who has taken charge as the new Secretary of the Groenefeld of Germany.
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) from They beat top-seeded Leander Paes of India and Cara
July 6, 2009.
Black of Zimbabwe 7-5, 6-3, in the final.
Raghu Menon
23. Pakistan Cricket player and one of its cricketing
15. Who won the Wimbledon Men's Singles title 2009 pioneers, who bowled the first delivery and took the
after defeating Andy Roddick in the final?
first wicket in the country’s inaugural Test match died
Roger Federer. He becomes the first man to win 15
recently after battling prostate cancer?
grand slams, and to regain the world No 1 ranking.
Khan Mohammad
16. Who won Wimbledon Women's doubles title
2009?
Venus Williams and Serena Williams. They beat
Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs of Australia
24. Who is appointed as Director (Projects) of GAIL
India?
Mr R D Goyal
25. French Tennis Player, who was banned by ATP
17. Who won Wimbledon men's doubles title 2009?
Tour for betting on matches, found dead in stairwell of
Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of
his Paris apartment ?
Serbia won Wimbledon men's doubles title 2009. They Mathieu Montcourt
beat top-seeded American twins Bob and Mike Bryan
in the final.
26. City of Australia which has decided to ban the sale
and use of bottled water to act for the preservation of
18. The Organisation of American States (OAS)
the environment?
recently expelled a country in reaction to last week's
Bundanoon
military coup that ousted its President Manuel Zelaya.
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27. Player of Manchester United’s who has joined Real 35. The Cricket Team which have boycotted the series
Madrid for $70 million?
against Bangladesh because of an outstanding
Cristiano Ronaldo
contractual dispute with its Cricket board?
West Indies Cricket Team
28. Versatile Actor who was inducted into the
Territorial Army as Honorary Lieutenant Colonel.
36. Who will remain captain of the German national
Mohanlal
team for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa?
This Malayalam Superstar has won four national
Michael Ballack
awards and the second recent high-profile personality
after Kapil Dev to don the Territorial Army uniform.
37. Who sets new world record in 100 meter butterfly
Lt Col Mohan Lal will be working with the Kerala
at the U.S. national championships in 50.22 seconds,
based 122 Infantry Battalion of the Territorial Army
lowering Ian Crocker's mark of 50.40 set at the 2005
(TA).
world championships in Montreal?
Michael Phelps
29. Name the first pilot from Kerala of the Royal Air
Force (Later Indian Air Force) and the First Head Of
38. Which country finished at the first position at the
Training Team of The Indian National Defence
5th South Asian Shooting Championship bagging 21
Academy who died recently?
gold medals out of 24 gold medals?
Moorkoth Ramunni
India
30. Fifteen-year-old girl of Toronto who broke the
world record in the women's 50-metre breaststroke at
the world championships swimming trials?
Amanda Reason
39. Player turned coach who has been named the India
under-16 football coach for the Asian qualifiers to be
held in Abu Dhabi in October 2009.
C.M. Ranjith
31. Who sets new world record in 100 meter
backstroke and first ever to go under 52 sec (51.94
seconds) at the U.S. national championships.
Aaron Peirsol
40. The world's most famous bell ringing out the hours
on the world's most famous clock, celebrated its 150th
anniversary on July 11, 2009 in London?
Big Ben
32. Global fast food Company which has apologized to
Hindus for running an advertisement in Spain that
showed an Indian goddess Lakshmi about to eat a beef
burger?
Burger King
41. The former boxing champion and one of the most
amazing boxer of his generation, who has been found
dead in a Brazilian hotel room recently?
Arturo Gatti
33. Who is elected as president of Indonesia for the
second term?
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
34. Former Australian coach John Buchanan has
criticized some of the present and former Indian
cricket stars like Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Sunil
Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Harbhajan Singh in
his recently-published book. Name of that book.
"The Future of Cricket: The Rise of Twenty20."
42. Who sets new world record in 200 meter
backstroke at the U.S. national championships?
Aaron Peirsol
43. Indian Squash player who won the third WISPA
title of her career when she defeated home favourite
Low Wee Wern in the final of the $ 16,000 NSC series
event on Saturday in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia
Joshna Chinappa
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44. Who wins Newport Hall of Fame Tennis
championships ATP Title?
Rajeev Ram
45. Renowned Marathi actor to win Maharashtra
government's best actor award consecutively for three
years, died recently in Pune after prolonged illness?
Neelu Phule
46. A distinguished conductor and his wife have
recently died at the Dignitas suicide clinic in
Switzerland. He was conductor emeritus of the BBC
Philharmonic among many other great achievements,
and Lady Downes, 74, was a former ballet dancer and
choreographer. Who are they?
Sir Edward Downes and Joan
47. Second cricket test between Srilanka and Pakistan
at Colombo won by?
Srilanka
Man of the match: Fawad Alam
Sri Lanka won the first test match on the last day of the
match.
48. Former prime minister of Poland and European
Parliament member since 2004, who has been elected
president of the European Parliament?
Jerzy Buzek
49. Who is appointed as the new defence secretary of
India?
Pradeep Kumar
Andrew Flintoff
53. Who has become the first Indian batsman in over
four years to head the batting rankings in test matches
by ICC?
Gautam Gambhir
54. Canadian comedian of Indian parents, came from
Kolkatta, who has been ranked among the Top 10
Earning Comedians in the world by Forbes?
Russell Peters
55. Carnatic music exponent and film playback singer
in many Indian languages, popularly referred as one of
the “female trinity of Carnatic music” who passed
away at the age of 90?
Damal Krishnaswamy Pattammal (D.K.Pattammal)
56. Chairman of the Iranian Atomic Energy
Organization who resigned from his post?
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh
57. The space shuttle of NASA descended safely to
Earth, ending a successful 16-day assembly mission to
the international space station ?
Endeavour
58. Summit of the Non-Allied Movement in 2012 will
take place in?
Iran.
59. Former India cricket captain who has been awarded
an Honorary Fellowship by the University of
50. First test between West Indies and Bangladesh held Lancashire.
in July is won by?
Sourav Ganguly
Bangladesh
60. Name the club of Argentina which won the
51. Indian Scientist and National Research Professor at Libertadores Cup beating Brazil's Cruzeiro by two
the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
goals to one?
Research who has been nominated for the prestigious Estudiantes
Royal Medal by the Royal Society, London.
Prof. C.N.R. Rao,
61. The Middlesex University in Hendon, London, has
conferred an Indian music director with an honorary
52. England all-rounder who decided to retire from test doctorate. Who is he?
cricket after the ashes series against Australia?
A.R.Rahman
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62. Name the 112th element which has been officially
added to the Periodic Table, earlier named as
Ununbium?
Copernicium.
The element with symbol "Cp" is named in honor of
astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. This name is
expected to be officially endorsed by IUPAC in
January 2010, after six months for discussion.
Man of the Match: Andrew Flintoff (five wickets for
92 runs)
64. New Governors of States of India
Uttar Pradesh-B.L. Joshi
Gujarat-Devendra Nath Dwivedi
Assam-Syed Sibtey Razi
Jharkhand-K Sankaranarayanan
Uttrakhand- Margaret Alva
Hariyana-Jagannath Pahadia
72. The second Indian archer to win a Youth World
Championship title after bagging gold in the girls'
Cadet Recurve category in the 11th edition of the
tournament at Ogden (Utah), USA?
Deepika Kumari
71. The solar eclipse witnessed on the month of July
2009 was the longest total solar eclipse during the 21st
century, not to be surpassed until June 2132. It lasted a
maximum of 6 minutes and 39 seconds off the coast of
Southeast Asia, causing tourist interest in eastern
China, Japan, India and Nepal. Which day it
63. Lt Governor of the Union Territory of Puducherry? witnessed?
Iqbal Singh
July 22, 2009
65. “The most trusted man in America," who was the
pioneering television news anchor died recently at the
age of 92?
Walter Cronkite
66. First World War veteran who became the world's
oldest man last month died at the age of 113.
Henry Allingham
73. The Airlines apologized for frisking former Indian
President Abdul Kalam at the Indira Gandhi
International Airport when he was going on a visit to
the US this April?
Continental Airlines of U.S.A
74. Hindustani music legend who mesmerized
audiences with her melodious voice for over six
decades, died recently?
Gangubai Hangal
67. Srilankan bowler who retired from test cricket after 75. Test Cricket Series between West Indies and
the test match against Pakistan?
Bangladesh won by ?
Chaminda Vas
Bangladesh.(2-0)
Man of the Match: Shakib Al Hasan
68. Womens hockey champions trophy won by?
Argentina. They beat Australia (4-3) in the final
76. Who was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi
International Award for Reconciliation and Peace?
69. India agreed to enter into an understanding on end- Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmarese pro-democracy
use monitoring agreement recently with a country that activist and leader,
will pave the way for greater defence cooperation.
Which country?
77. Who becomes the first ever black Miss England?
United States of America
Rachel Christie
70. Second test of Ashes held at Lord’s won by?
England. This is for the first time in 75 years that
England has won the Ashes at Lord's. They beat
Australia by 115 runs in the second Test
78. Former Peruvian president who was sentenced to
seven and a half years in prison on corruption charges.
Alberto Fujimori
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79. Who is named as new LTTE chief?
Selvarasa Pathmanathan
80. Who became the youngest player (12 years old)
ever to play in professional football when he came on
as a substitute for Aurora in a Bolivian Clausura
championship match?
Mauricio Baldivieso
81. Who becomes the highest ever Australian run
scorer in first class cricket surpassing the record of the
legendary Sir Donald Bradman?
Justin Langer
82. Two piano works recently have been identified as
the creation of a legendary musician which has long
been in the possession of the International Mozarteum
Foundation in the Austrian city of Salzburg. Name that
musician?
Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.)
83. Newly elected President of Kyrgyzstan?
Kurmanbek Bakiyevi
84. Which country has won the team tech gold medal
in synchronized swimming at the world
championships?
Russia.
Russia has won both gold medals in synchro at the last
three Olympics.
85. Test Cricket series between Srilanka and Pakistan
held is won by?
Sri Lanka won the series by 2-0.
Man of the series:Nuvan Kulasekhara
Man of the match of third test: Kumar Sangakkara.
Third Test ended in a draw.
86. Who received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace,
Disarmament and Development for 2007?
Bill Gates, on behalf of “Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation” for their exemplary philanthropic work
across the world and in India especially in the area of
health.
87. One of the world's largest optical telescopes,
installed on a mountain in the Canary Islands, which is
extremely powerful and will be able to spot some of
the faintest, most distant objects in the Universe?
Great Canary Telescope
With a main mirror 10.4 metre across, it will
effectively be the largest telescope for visible and
infrared light in the world.
88. India’s first nuclear powered ballistic missile
submarine at the naval dockyard, Visakhapatnam
which is launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
and his wife Gursharan Kaur on July 26,2009?
INS Arihant
89. Eminent music director and sitarist composed the
musical scores for about 40 films in Hindi, Marathi,
and Malayalam who blended Indian classical and
Western music in his work, was a disciple of Pandit
Ravi Shankar died at the age of 73?
Bhaskar Chandavarkar
90. Who won ITF Lexington Challenger Tennis title?
Sania Mirza
91. Which country won CONCACAF Gold Cup
Football title beating U.S.A (5-0) in the final?
Mexico
92. Who has been awarded the 2009 Amnesty
International Ambassador of Conscience award?
Aung San Suu Kyi
93. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister who resigned
after a senior PDP leader alleged in the state assembly
that he was involved in the 2006 sex scandal, a charge
dismissed by him as false?
Omar Abdullah
94. Who win gold in the women's 200 metres
individual medley at the World Championships?
Ariana Kukors(U.S.A)
95. Who won women's 100 metres butterfly final at the
world swimming championships?
Sarah Sjostrom(Sweden)
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96. Veteran Malayalam actor, who won critical
acclaim for the ease with which he portrayed villainous
roles in Malayalam and Tamil cinema died at the age
of 55?
Rajan P.Dev
(physically challenged), Satish Joshi (rowing), Ranjan
Sodhi (shooting), Poulami Ghatak (table tennis),
Yogeshwar Dutt (wrestling), G.L. Yadav (yatching)
Dronacharya Award:
Baldev Singh (hockey), Jaidev Bisht (boxing), Satpal
97. Charismatic Jaipur royal, a three-time MP and who (wrestling), Pullela Gopichand (badminton) and
was once named as ”World’’s Ten Most Beautiful
Udaikumar (kabaddi).
Women” by ”Vogue” magazine, died here today
following a prolonged illness.?
99. One day cricket series between West Indies and
Rajmata Gayatri Devi
Bangladesh won by ?
Bangladesh (2-0)
98. Sports Awards 2009:
100. Who won gold in the 200- meter freestyle final at
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna:
M.C. Marykom (boxer),
the world swimming championships in Rome?
Vijender Kumar (boxer)
Paul Biedermann
Sushil Kumar (wrestling)
He won in a world record time of 1 minute, 42
seconds, ahead of previous record-holder Michael
Phelps
Arjuna Award:
Mangal Singh Champia (archery), Sinimol Paulose
101. Who is appointed as the captain of 20-20 Team of
(athletics), Saina Nehwal (badminton), L. Saritha Devi Pakistan?
(boxing), Tania Sachdeva (chess), Gautam Gambhir
Shahid Afridi
(cricket), Ignatius Tirkey (hockey), Surinder Kaur
(hockey), Pankaj Shirsat (kabaddi), B. Prabhu
CURRENT AFFAIRS - JUNE-2009
1. Who has been appointed as the Chief of the Indian
Air Force with effect from the afternoon of May 31,
2009?
Air Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik
2. Who is appointed as the first woman Speaker of the
Lok Sabha in 2009?
Meira Kumar
3. Who was elected as BJP's Parliamentary party
leader after the recent elections in 2009?
L K Advani
4. Noted Malayalam writer and poetess, who earned
fame for her works in English, passed away recently,
leaving behind a rich treasure of poems and stories of
love?
Kamala Das (also known as Kamala Surayya)
5. In which state FIFA will set up Soccer Academy for
the first time in India?
Kerala
6. Which team won the French League title for the first
time since 1999.
Bordeaux
7. Which country’s air jet vanished over the Atlantic
Ocean carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew members
after flying into a strong thunderstorm over the
Atlantic Ocean and signaling it had an electric
problem?
France
Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330, carrying 228
people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris vanished over the
Atlantic Ocean and no one survived.
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8. American President Barack Obama recently ushered
the second car giant of the world into bankruptcy
protection and put the government behind the wheel of
the company ?
General Motors Corp
16. Grammy Award winner, who dubbed the “Queen
of the Blues,” died recently in her native Chicago
following complications from her May 19th surgery
for gastrointestinal bleeding?
Koko Taylor
9. Scottish singing sensation, who rose to fame on
reality show “Britain’s Got Talent” but lost to dance
group Diversity in the final, was admitted to a private
clinic for treatment for exhaustion (emotional
breakdown)?
Susan Boyle
17. Who is appointed as the new Home Secretary of
India ?
G.K. Pillai (Gopal Krishna Pillai)
10. The last survivor of the legendary ocean liner
Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage in April
1912 after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic?
Millvina Dean.
She aged 97 who died in England recently earlier
known as Elizabeth Gladys Dean
18. The J.C. Daniel Award for 2008 instituted by
Kerala Government is won by?
K. Ravindranathan Nair, popularly known as General
Pictures Ravi.
19. Who is appointed as the General Manager of State
Bank of India, Kerala Circle?
V. Ramamoorthy.
20. Presidential candidate and minister in Guinea11. Former senior diplomat who has been appointed as Bissau who was shot dead when armed men stormed
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's special adviser for into his house?
nonproliferation and arms control?
Baciro Dabo
Robert J. Einhorn
21. Who is the leader of the Indian Arctic expedition
12. Kerala state Film Awards-2009
team?
(Available in Section-2)
Dr.Muhammad Hatha
13. Organization of American States (OAS) recently
agreed to lift the ban on a country after 47 years?
Which is that country?
Cuba
14. Defence Minister of Australia who resigned
recently, after saying he did not fully comply with the
ministerial code of conduct.
Joel Fitzgibbon
15. American Actor who has been found dead in a
Bangkok hotel room, whose extensive record of onscreen appearances included the movie Kill Bill and
the TV show Kung Fu, was apparently found in a
closet with a cord around his neck and around parts of
his body?
David Carradine
22. Who wins French Open women's singles title
2009?
Svetlana Kuznetsova She won her second Grand Slam
title beating top-ranked Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-2 in the
French Open final.
23. Which country becomes the first nation other than
the hosts to qualify for the 2010 World Cup Football in
South Africa after they beat Uzbekistan 1-0?
Japan
24. Indian scientists recently have cloned the world’s
second buffalo just three months after the first one died
of pneumonia within a week of birth. What is the name
of that buffalo?
Garima
The calf, named Garima, was born at 11 a.m. at the
National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal, and
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weighed 43 kg. The first cloned buffalo was born on
February 6.
31. Who is appointed as Australia’s next High
Commissioner to India?
Peter Varghese
25. Who has won Formula One's Turkish Grand Prix ?
Jenson Button
32. Who has been appointed as the managing director
He won the Turkish Grand Prix for his sixth victory in of Volkswagen Group Sales India Private Limited?
seven Formula One Car races.
Maik Stephan
26. Who wins French Open Men's Singletitle 2009?
Roger Federer
Roger Federer defeated Robin Soderling in straight
sets [6-1, 7-6, 6-4] to clinch the 2009 French Open
Men’s Single title at Roland Garro
Roger Federer has become the second man, after Pete
Sampras to win the maximum number of Grand Slams.
Roger Federer is the first man since Andre Agassi to
win all 4 Grand Slams and 6th player to do so.
Ironically, this is Federer’s first win at the French
Open.
27. CPI-M leader and Party State Secretary of Kerala
who is included in the charge sheet filed by the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as one of the eight
accused in the Rs.300 crore (Rs.3 billion) SNC Lavalin
corruption scam?
Pinarayi Vijayan
The Kerala state governor R S Gavai has allowed the
prosecution proceedings against Pinarayi vijayan who
was the power minister in the E K Nayanar cabinet
during 1996.
28. Eminent playwright and theatre artist, one of the
greatest stalwarts of the Indian stage, was known for
blending theatre, folk art and poetry in his works, died
of a heart attack in a city hospital in Bhopal recently?
Habib Tanvir
29. Who was unanimously elected as the new Deputy
Speaker of Lok Sabha by a voice vote?
Karia Munda(B.J.P)
30. Which country has become the world's second
biggest military spender behind the United States of
America(U.S.A)?
China
33. Mohun Bagan, one of the oldest football club of
India recently suspended its captain for six months
from playing for the club, citing "violation of rules and
regulations”. Name that captain ?
Baichung Bhutia
34. Which oil company decided to pay compensation
to late Nigerian writer Ken Saro Wiwa’s family and
those of the other eight Ogoni leaders executed along
with him in 1995 by the late General Sani Abacha
military junta?
Royal Dutch Shell
35. Which word is selected as the millionth word of the
English Language?
Web 2.0
"Web 2.0" refers to what is perceived as a second
generation of web development and web design. It is
characterized as facilitating communication,
information sharing, interoperability, user-centered
design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. The
term "Web 2.0" was coined by Darcy DiNucci in her
article "Fragmented Future,"
in 1999.
36. Name the Jamaican sprinter who won the Laureus
World Sportsman of the Year award for his recordbreaking performance in the Beijing Olympics.
Usain Bolt
37. Name the Portuguese footballer and Manchester
United winger who set a world record transfer fee of
80 million pound (130 million U.S. dollars) as he
signed a six-year deal with Real Madrid Club ?
Cristiano Ronaldo
38. Which is the 112th element on the Periodic table?
Ununbium
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Ununbium, element 112, has recently been added to
the periodic table,
Ununbium was first created on February 9, 1996 by
Sigurd Hofmann at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research
in Darmstadt, Germany.Ununbium is not the element's
official name; the temporary moniker was given by
IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry) and comes from "ununbi", or "one one
two" in Latin.
Football title?
Goa
Goa defeated 29 time champions West Bengal by 2-4
in the final
46. Who won the WinWInD Golden Boot Award for
the Top scorer
P. C. Riju (Striker, Tamil Nadu)
47. Player of the Tournament of Santosh Trophy?
39. Which Foreign university conferred Former Indian P. Muthu (Striker, Tamil Nadu)
President A P J Abdul Kalam with honorary Doctorate
of Laws for distinction in public service?
48. Which team won the Fair-play Award of Santosh
Queen’s University Belfast, a prominent varsity based Trophy ?
in Northern Ireland
Goa
40. Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications
Minister who decided to resign over a conflict about
the reappointment of the president of governmentowned Japan Post, Yoshifumi Nishikawa?
Kunio Hatoyama
41. Senior Nepali Congress leader and the country’s
first deputy woman Prime Minister who had been
suffering from pneumonia and Alzheimer’s died
recently at the age of 65 ?
Shailaja Acharya
42. Newly elected President of Iran ?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
43. A 136-year-old stamped envelope known to
collectors as "The Ice House Cover" carries a rare
stamp of former American President. Name that
President?
Abraham Lincoln
It was stolen from an Indiana collector in 1967,
surfaced 39 years later in Chicago and was sold at
auction by the Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries,
Inc., in New York.
44. Winners of 10th edition of International Indian
Film Academy (IIFA) Awards
(Available in Section-2)
45. Who are the champions of 63rd Santosh Trophy
49. Which is the most commonly misspelt word in the
English language, according to a new study by market
research company www.OnePoll.com?
Definitely
Flummoxed people regularly writing it as "definately".
The Top 10 most commonly misspelt words in the
study by www.OnePoll.com were:
1 Definitely (Definately);
2 Sacrilegious (Sacreligious);
3 Indict (Indite);
4 Manoeuvre (Maneouvre);
5 Bureaucracy ( Beaurocracy);
6 Broccoli (Brocolli);
7 Phlegm (Phleghm);
8 Prejudice ( Predjudice);
9 Consensus (Conscensus);
10 Unnecessary (Unecessary).
50. America's new army chief in Afghanistan over to
run the war in Afghanistan under fire over abusive
treatment and interrogation of detainees in Iraq,
according to human rights investigators.
Gen Stanley MacChrystal
51. Bollywood actor who has been detained after
having been accused of rape by his maid servant aged
19?
Shiney Ahuja
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52. The Chinese waitress who stabbed to death a
communist party official Deng Guida, who was trying
to rape her, has been released recently by a court in
Hubei province in China?
Deng Yujiao
53. Mogadishu's(Somalia) police chief, , who was
killed when government forces attempted to dislodge
the insurgents from positions in south Mogadishu?
Colonel Ali Saed
61. The world's oldest man, who has died at his home
in southern Japan on June 19, 2009 at the age of 113?
Tomoji Tanabe,
62. Champions of ICC 20-20 Cricket World cup?
Paksitan, they beat Sri Lanka in the final
Man of the match in the final: Shahid Afridi
Man of the series: Tilakaratne Dilshan
63. Who won ICC 20-20 Women’s World cup?
England, they beat New Zealand in the final
54. Somalia's Security Minister who has been killed in Player of the Match: Katherine Brunt.
a suicide car bomb attack north of the capital
Player of the Series: Claire Taylor
Mogadishu?
Omar Hashi Aden
64. “Satyam Computers” now renamed by Tech
Mahindra as:
55. Name the Kathakali maestro who excelled in
Mahindra Satyam
depicting women characters in classical theatre, has
been selected for the Kerala government’s highest
65. Ace woman shuttler who scripted history by
award for Kathakali artistes which carrying a cash
becoming the first Indian to win a Super Series
award of Rs one lakh and a citation ?
tournament after clinched the Indonesian Open title
Kottakkal Sivaraman
with a stunning victory over higher ranked Chinese Lin
Wang in Jakarta?
56. The IPL coach of Kolkata Knight Riders who was Saina Nehwal
expelled by the team management after their team’s
poor performance in the second IPL?
66. The island which expanded its powers of self-rule
John Buchanan
on its national day in a move many residents see as a
step toward independence from Denmark?
57. Chelsea striker who has been bannedby European Greenland
football body UEFA for 6 years for his Champions
League semi-final outburst?
67. Who is appointed as captain of Bangladesh Cricket
Didier Drogba
Team for the forthcoming tours of West Indies and
Zimbabwe?
58. Who is elected as the new President of Abu
Mashrafe Mortaza
Dhabi’s prestigious India Social & Culture Centre
Shakib Al Hasan, the world's No.1 allrounder in ODIs,
(ISCC)?
has been named the vice-captain.
Y. Sudhir Kumar Shetty
68. Who is appointed as the new governor of
59. The sarod maestro who died recently in San
Karnataka ?
Francisco, following a prolonged kidney ailment?
Hans Raj Bhardwaj
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
69. Which country won bronze medal in the light60. Who has been chosen by the legendary sports stars weight women's Quadruple Sculls in the World Cup 2,
of the Laureus World Sports Aacdemy as the 2009
held at Munich (Germany)?
Laureus World Comeback of the Year?
India
'King of the Ring’ Vitali Klitschko
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70. Who is the New Chief Minister of Uttarakhand?
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
71. Who is appointed as the Chairman of National
Authority for Unique Identity?
Nandan Nilekani, the Infosys Chief
Anish Mahajan
78. Who is the new prime minister of Lebanon?
Saad Hariri
79. Popular Malayalam Film Director and one of the
best scriptwriters that Malayalam cinema ever
72. Who is appointed as the United States Special
produced, died recently?
Representative to Muslim Communiites by the Obama A.K.Lohitha Das
administration ?
Farah Pandith
80. which country won the inaugural Women’s
Champions Challenge II hockey title with a thumping
73. Greek musician Yanni, who dedicated his new
6-3 win over Belgium in the final?
song 'Changes' to a Bollywood actress.Who is she ?
India (Rani Rampal of India hit 4 goals in the final)
Mallika Sherawat
81. Class 11 student of Kerala who won a silver medal
74. The second statue of India's independence hero
at the World School Athletics championship held in
Mahatma Gandhi is unveiled in a country recently.
Estonia in northern Europe.
Where is it?
Binish K. Shaji
Britain. (Leicester in southeast England)
82. Which country won the Confederations Cup
75. Pop Sensation who died of lethal levels of potent
football title of 2009?
medicines and drugs at the age of 50?
Brazil. They beat the United States 3-2 and win the
Michael Jackson
Confederations Cup for the third time.
76. One of the pioneers of women’s studies in India,
died recently , who set up India’s first Research Centre
for Women’s Studies at SNDT Women’s University
and served as its first director ?
Dr Neera Desai
83. Who wins Golden Ball as Confederations Cup best
player?
Kaka, Brazilian midfielder
84. Only three Indian greats who figure in the
International Cricket Council's 55-strong Hall of Fame
77. An emerging Indian-American leader in California list, which has 22 Englishmen?
who has been selected for the prestigious White House Left-arm spin wizard Bishen Singh Bedi ,
Fellow for the year 2009-2010?
Prolific opener Sunil Gavaskar
Champion all-rounder Kapil Dev
CURRENT AFFAIRS - MAY 2009
1. Who has become the first person in the World to
have a full face transplant?
Connie Culp
Connie was shot by her husband, who also shot
himself afterwards, but both of them survived. She lost
her nose and needed tracheotomy to be able to breathe
and the whole surgery took 22 hours.
2. Name the Delhi-based automotive tyre maker, which
announced the acquisition of Dutch-tyre firm
Vredestein Banden BV, a subsidiary of Russia’s
largest tyre manufacturer Amtel-Vredestein which
went bankrupt last month.
Apollo Tyres Ltd
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3. Who is reappointed as Director-General of World
Trade Organisation (WTO) for a second term of four
years as from 1 September 2009?
Pascal Lamy
11. Former South Korean President who committed
suicide by leaping to his death from a hill behind his
house?
Roh Moo-Hyun
Roh, who was president from 2003 to 2008. Roh's
death came amid an investigation into a bribery
scandal that had tarnished his reputation
4. The South Korean blogger who was arrested in
January and accused by the government of spreading
false information about the worsening global economy,
was acquitted recently?
12. A British charity fundraiser who won the "best job
Park Dae-sung, as a financial blogger, he published
in the world" i.e., caretaker of an Australian tropical
posts in his blog named Minerva
island — after an innovative marketing campaign that
highlighted the power of social media?
5. Who has been selected as the new Chief Coach for
Ben Southal
the Indian Men's Hockey team?
Jose Brasa of Spain
13. Name the chief of the Anti Crime Cell of Indonesia
who is arrested recently for a murder case?
6. Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav recently
Ansari Azhar
rejected the Maoist led government's decision to sack
the army chief, pushing the country further into
14. Who is appointed as the Country Director of
political crisis that threatens to derail the two-and-half- Western Union Financial services for its India
year-old peace process. Name the army chief?
operations ?
Rukmangat Katuwal
Kiran Shetty
7. First concert of A.R.Rahman after winning the
Oscar award was held in?
Kozhikkode (Kerala) on May 3
15. Who has won the Chess Oscar for the third time,
the game's most prestigious annual award?
Viswanathan Anand
8. The 16-year-old Delhi boy, who has won his second
International Tennis Federation (ITF) title by defeating
South African opponent Raven Klaasen at the DLTA
complex on Saturday (May 2)?
Yuki Bhambri
16. Who was sworn in as South Africa's new
president?
Jacob Zuma
He becomes fourth democratically-elected president of
the country since the end of apartheid in 1994.
9. Name the Sri Lankan journalist and editor, who was
assassinated on 8 January of this year, has been named
as the laureate of the 2009 World Press Freedom Prize
by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Lasantha Wickrematunge
17. Which country won the gold medal in the recurve
team event of the archery World Cup Stage II at Porec,
Croatia?
India.
India’s fearsome threesome of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul
Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia defeated Russian
Federation by 220 points to 218.
Italy won the bronze beating China 221-219.
10. Who won his record fourth Rome Masters title,
beating defending champion Novak Djokovic
Rafael Nadal
18. Who won the Spanish Grand Prix Car race title?
Britain's Jenson Button
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19. The First South Indian(Malayalee) who has been
Manchester United
appointed as the secretary of Supreme Court of India ?
M.P.Bhadran
29. India’s largest direct-to-home service and part of
the biggest media conglomerate, Zee Group which
20. Who has been appointed as the Managing Director announced their association with ‘Microsoft Xbox 360
and CEO of ICICI prudential Life?
Arcade’, the next generation video gaming and
V.Vaidyanathan
entertainment system on their platform?
Dish TV
21. Indian-origin anti-apartheid activist who has been
inducted into South African President Jacob Zuma's
30. Former South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce
cabinet, taking the number of people from the
president who has been elected Vice President of
community in the government to seven.
Federation of International Film Producers Association
Maggie Govender
[FIAF] for 2009 – 2011?
P.V Gangadharan, It is for the first time an Indian
22. Who won Football Writers' Association Footballer arrives in the prestigious position
of the Year award, recently ?
Steven Gerrard
31. LTTE(Liberation Tigers o f Tamil Eelam) leader
who was killed by Sri Lankan Army ?
23. Which team rallied for a 4-1 victory against
Velupillai Prabhakaran
Athletic Bilbao for its record 25th Spanish King’s Cup
title?
32. Who sets world record over 150 meters in 14.35
Barcelona
seconds on the streets of Manchester?
Usain Bolt, the reigning world record holder at 100m
24. In a case prosecuted by the United States Attorney and 200m, sets the world record over 150 meters
for the District of Massachusetts, a federal judge
sentenced an investment adviser, age 38, of
33. The first British Speaker to be forced out of office
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to ten years in federal
in over 300 years because of his handling of a scandal
prison on federal mail and wire fraud for defrauding
on MPs'expenses?
his investment advisory clients. Who is he ?
Michael Martin
Amit Mathur
34. Self-styled god man of Kerala who was sentenced
25. Which team won the Copa Italia Football title ?
to 16 years of rigorous imprisonment and a penalty of
Lazio
Rs 2,10,000 for raping two minor girls?
Lazio beat Sampdoria(6-5)
Santhosh Madhavan (Swamy Amrutha Chaithanya)
26. The new model car launched by Maruti in May2009?
Ritz
35. Who is the new Prime Minister of Kuwait?
Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammed al-Ahmed al-Sabah
36. The only Indian who hit a century in IPL?
27. Britain's first Muslim minister resigned from office Maneesh Pandey (114 Not Out) of Bangalore Royal
Seeking to clear his name from media accusations of
challengers
breaching his ministerial code over expenses?
Only two players have century in IPL-2009, the other
Shahid Malik
is Ab Devilliers(105 Not Out) of Delhi Dare Devils
28. Which team won the 18th English Premiere league 37. Orange Cap Holder of DLF IPL 2009(It is given
title 2009 by holding off Arsenal to a draw?
for the player who is the leading run scorer in the
26
match.)?
Mathew Hayden of Chennai Super Kings. He scored
572 runs
38. Purple Cap holder of DLF IPL 2009(It is given for
the player who is the leading wicket taker in the
match)
R.P.Singh(23 Wickets)
39. Man of the match in the final of IPL-2009 ?
Anil Kumble(16 /4 in 4 overs)
40. IPL-2009 is held in ?
South Africa
41. IPL-2009 is won by ?
Deccan Chargers, they beat Bangalore Royal
Challengers in the final.
A Chindan Nair
47. Who is appointed as the next chief of NASA
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)?
Charles F. Bolden Jr
Bolden is a former astronaut who was involved in
several critical missions for the US Space Agency.
48. Who was re-elected to the largely ceremonial post
of German president recently for a second five-year
term?
Horst Kohler
49. An American scientist whose work helped lead to
the development of the anti-impotency drug Viagra,
died at the age of 92 in Seattle?
Robert F Furchgott
50. Who won the Monaco Grand Prix Car race title?
42. UEFA Cup, European trophy, which has been won Jenson Button(Britain)
by a Ukrainian team for the first time in the history of
Ukrainian football?
51. Name the Civil rights activist, who was given bail
Shakhtar
by the Supreme Court, walked free from Raipur jail
after two years of incarceration?
43. Name the Malawi's President who has been sworn Binayak Sen
in for a second five-year term recently ?
Bingu wa Mutharika
52. The country which started its first new overseas
military base(named as Peace Camp) since the end of
44. Name THE WORLD'S oldest blogger, Spanish
the colonial era at Abudabi of UAE(United Arab
great-grandmother who had a global following, has
Emirates)
died at the age of 97.
France
Maria Amelia Lopez,
According to the AP, her first post on December 23,
53. Who has been appointed the new Pro-Vice2006 said that her grandson, who is very stingy, gave
Chancellor of the Kerala University?
her a blog for her birthday. Her site had more than 1.5 J.Prabhash
million hits.
Their blog address: http://www.amis95.blogspot.com/ 54. New President of Mongolia?
Tsakhiaglin Elbegdorj(Democratic Party)
45. Veteran communist leader who has been sworn in
as the Nepal’s new prime minister?
55. Prasar Bharati Chairman who resigned recently
Madhav Kumar Nepal
because he was "dissatisfied" with the functioning of
the Board?
46. Veteran freedom-fighter and soldier of the INA,
Arun Bhatnagar
who served as the driver of Netaji Subhash Chandra
Bose, died at his house at Mathil, near Payyanur in
56. Man of the series of Natwest series between
Kannur district of Kerala?
England and West Indies?
27
Stuart Broad
England won the series by (2-0)
MINISTERS OF 15TH LOK SABHA AND THEIR
PORTFOLIOS
57. Who wins 2009 Man Booker International Prize for
lifetime achievement?
Alice Munro
This Canadian short story writer will get prize worth
£60,000.
It was first awarded to Ismail Kadare in 2005 and then
to Chinua Achebe in 2007.
The ministry headed by Dr.Manmohan Singh consists
of 78 ministers, including 33 cabinet ministers and 45
ministers of state. United Progressive Alliance (UPA)
government ministry consists of 19 allies.
Fifteenth (15th) Lok sabha cpuncil of Ministers with
their portfolios
CABINET MINSTERS
58. New US Ambassador to India?
Timothy J Roemer
Manmohan Singh- Prime Minister
Pranab Mukherjee- Finance
59. Who became etched in football history as the first Sharad Pawar- Agriculture, Food and Civil Supplies,
Asian footballer to have played in the final of
Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution
Champions League?
A K Antony- Defence
Park J-sung
P. Chidambaram- Home Affairs
Mamata Banerjee- Railways
60. Champions League-2009 is won by ?
S M Krishna- External Affairs
Barcelona.
Ghulam Nabi Azad- Health and Family Welfare
Barcelona beat Manchester United highlights in the
Kapil Sibal- Human Resource Development
final by 2-0
Veerappa Moily- Law and Justice
Ambika Soni- Information and Broadcasting
61. Who is appointed as the Deputy Chief Minister of Anand Sharma- Commerce and Industry
TamilNadu ?
S Jaipal Reddy- Urban Development
M.K.Stalin
Murli Deora- Petroleum and Natural Gas
Kumari Selja- Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation,
62. Who is appointed as the new Chief Secretary of
Tourism
Kerala State ?
Sushilkumar Shinde- Power
Neela Gangadharan
Vilasrao Deshmukh- Heavy Industries and Public
Enterprises.
63. Who has been named winner of the Laureus World Kamal Nath- Surface Transport and Highways
Sportswoman of the Year Award (2008) for the second Virbhadra Singh- Steel
time, following her sensational gold medal winning
A Raja- IT and Communication
performance at the Beijing Olympics
Dayanidhi Maran- Textiles
Yelena Isinbayeva (Russia’s Pole Vault player)
Meira Kumar- Water Resources
C P Joshi- Rural Development and Panchayati Raj
64. Who has won the prestigious Scripps National
M S Gill- Youth Affairs and Sports
Spelling Bee 2009 final?
M Azhagiri- Chemicals and Fertilizers
Kavya Shivashankar, a 13-year-old student from
Mallikarjun Kharge- Labour and Employment
Olathe, Kansas, whose parents migrated to the United Farooq Abdullah- New and Renewable Energy.
States from India
Subodh Kant Sahay- Food Processing Industries
G K Vasan- Shipping
Pawan Kumar Bansal- Parliamentary Affairs
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Vyalar Ravi- Overseas Indian Affairs
B K Handique- Mines, Development of North-Eastern
Region
Mukul Wasnik- Social Justice and Empowerment
Kantilal Bhuria- Tribal Affairs
MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT
CHARGE)
Praful Patel- Civil Aviation
Prithviraj Chavan- Science and Technology; Earth
Sciences and MoS in the PMO; Personnel, Public
Grievances and Pensions and Parliamentary Affairs.
Sriprakash Jaiswal- Coal; Statistics and Programme
Implementation
Salman Khursheed- Corporate Affairs; Minority
Affairs
Dinsha J Patel- Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Krishna Tirath- Women and Child Development
Jairam Ramesh- Environment and Forests
MINISTERS OF STATE
Mahadev S Khandela- Road Transport and Highways
Dinesh Trivedi- Health and Family Welfare
Sisir Adhikari- Rural Development
Sultan Ahmed- Tourism
Mukul Roy- Shipping
Mohan Jatua- Information and Broadcasting
D Napoleon- Social Justice and Empowerment
Dr S Jagathrakshakan- Information and Broadcasting
S Gandhiselvan- Health and Family Welfare
Tusharbhai Chaudhary- Tribal Affairs
Sachin Pilot- Communications and IT
Arun Yadav- Youth Affairs and Sports
Pratik Patil- Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
R P N Singh - Road Transport and Highways
Shashi Tharoor- External Affairs
Vincent Pala- Water Resources
Pradeep Jain- Rural Development
Agatha Sangma- Rural Development
Ajay Maken- Home Affairs
Jitin Prasada- Petroleum and Natural Gas
E. Ahamed- Railways
Srikant Jena- Chemicals and Fertilizers
Mullappally Ramachandran- Home Affairs
V Narayansamy- Planning, Parliamentary Affairs
Jyotiraditya Scindia- Commerce and Industry
D Purandeswari- Human Resource Development
K H Muniyappa- Railways
Panabaka Lakshmi- Textiles
Namo Narain Meena- Finance
M M. Pallam Raju- Defence
Saugata Ray- Urban Development
SS Palanimanickam- Finance
A Sai Prathap- Steel
Preneet Kaur- External Affairs
Gurudas Kamath- IT and Communications
Harish Rawat- Labour and Employment
K V Thomas- Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food
and Public Distribution
Bharatsinh Solanki- Power
CURRENT AFFAIRS – APRIL 2009
1. The 21st Arab League (AL) summit to discuss a
package of major issues, including the Palestinian
cause, the peace process in the Middle East,
improvement of inter-Arab relations and the situation
in Sudan was held at ?
Doha, capital of Qatar
2. G-20 Summit which is the world's 20 largest
developed and developing nations meeting was held
at?
London
3. Lawyer from the Maharashtra Service Legal
Authority, who had been appointed to represent
Mumbai terror attack accused Ajmal Amir Kasab and
withdrew from the case later in response of several
protests.
Anjali Wghmare
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4. Maruti Suzuki has decided to stop two selling
13. Who was the 'man of the series' in the Test series
models, from 11 cities, including the four metros, from against New Zealand which India won 1-0 to script a
2010 due to tighter emission norms. Which are they?
series win in that country after 41 years?
Maruti-800 and Omni
Gautham Gambhir
5. Former cricket player of Pakistan who was
appointed as an adviser to the Chinese Cricket
Association?
Javed Miandad
6. Bollywood actor and politician who has been
appointed the General Secretary of Samajwadi Party.
Sanjay Dutt
14. India signed three pacts with a gulf country for
strengthening cooperation in science and technology,
education and culture as they pledged to contribute to
each other's well being and prosperity. Which is that
country?
Kuwait
15. Kiran Sikri, a consumer who was penalised by a
bank in India despite cancelling her loan. After her
7. Name the Thai citizen who was sentenced to 10
complaint, she was awarded a compensation of
years in prison for insulting the king of Thailand and
Rs.25,000/-by the Consumer Commission which found
his family by posting edited photos of the monarchy on the bank guilty of deficiency of service in that case.
the Internet?
Name that Bank?
Suwicha Thakho
ICICI
8. At the time of its final broadcast on September 18,
2009, the teleserial which will have spanned 72 years
and more than 15,700 episodes on television and
radio?
Guiding Light
16. The country in which state of emergency declared
recently by its Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, with
troops firing shots into the air in an attempt to control
anti-government protesters, some of whom stormed the
country's interior ministry?
Thailand
9. Mahatma Gandhi is remembered in a very special
way in a small village in India by worshipping his idol 17. Who is appointed as the new President and CEO of
in a temple? Where is it?
Mahindra Life space Developers?
The temple at Bhatra Village in Sambalpur town in
Anita Arjundas
Orissa
18. Country which regained the Sultan Azlan Shah
10. England All rounder who made the first hat-trick of Hockey title after a 13-year gap, defeating hosts
his international career in the recent One Day series
Malaysia 3-1 in the final of the five-nation
against West Indies?
tournament?
Andrew Flintoff
India
11. Name the Slovakia's president who wins second
term in office after defeating the first woman to reach a
runoff vote?
Ivan Gasparovic
19. Which IT Company won the bid for India's fourth
largest software exporter Satyam Computer?
Tech Mahindra, the IT arm of auto major Mahindra
and Mahindra.
Tech Mahindra's winning bid was of Rs.1,757 Crore
12. Who won the Sony Ericsson Open final by beating ($351.4 million) for 31 percent stake in the scamSerena Williams which is held in Miami?
tainted IT giant “Satyam”
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus
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20. Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza lifted her first WTA
title of the year, teaming up with a Chinese Player to
clinch the women's doubles trophy at the USD 220,000
MPS Group Championships in Florida. Who is she?
Chia-Jung Chuang
21. Who became the first Indian sports personality to
be featured at the Madame Tussaud's wax museum in
London?
Sachin Tendulkar
major Britannia Industries.
The Nusli Wadia group
Nusli N Wadia, is the chairman of Britannia Industries,
28. Who is re-appointed as Fiji’s interim prime
minister despite a Court of Appeal’s decision last week
declaring his 2006 military coup illegal?
Commodore Frank Bainimarama
29. Leading Afghan rights activist who was killed by
Taliban cowards after leaving meeting in Kandahar,
22. Recently a German Luxury carmaker has launched Afghanistan?
a Limited Edition of its E-Class cars in India? Name
Sitara Achakzai
the Company?
Mercedes Benz
30. Rifle-shooter who won the gold in the three
The Mercedes Benz E-Class Limited Edition is priced position event in the Chongwon World Cup in South
at Rs 43.4 Lakh (Ex-Showroom, Delhi).
Korea, becoming the first Indian to win two medals in
a single ISSF World Cup?
23. The First Dog who joined US President Barack
Gagan Narang
Obama and his family at the White House on April 14,
2009?
31. Which Zimbabwe captain named as the new coach
Bo
of England Cricket Team for the recent series against
West Indies and the Ashes?
24. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) recently Andy Flower
launched its much awaited white-labelled credit card in
tie up with an Indian Bank? Which Bank?
32. Who is appointed as the new US Ambassador to
Corporation Bank
India?
Tim Roemer
25. Who is selected as the captain of The Wisden Test
XI of 2008, which recognises the best Test cricketers
33. Which country’s teams are qualified for the next
and endorses Test cricket as the highest, most skilled
World Cup Cricket in 2011?
form of the game.
Canada, Kenya, Holland, Ireland
Mahindra Singh Dhoni, the team includes Indians
Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh 34. Name the American Journalist who was accused
and Zaheer Khan.
with charges amounting to Espionage for the U S, and
was sentenced to eight years in Prison by the Judicial
26. The journalist who threw a shoe at Home Minister Council of IRAN last week?
P Chidambaram at a press conference protesting
Rooksana Saberi
against the minister's reply on his question on CBI's
clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the
35. Which Tennis player who won his 5th straight
1984 Sikh riots case?
Monte Carlo Masters Trophy, also known as "Open
Jarnail Singh, a senior reporter of Dainik Jagran
Barcelona", more commonly known as the "Godó
Trophy"?
27. The Indian Company which managed to buy its
Rafel Nadal
French partner Group Danone's 50% stake in ABI
Holdings, which controls 51% equity interest in biscuit
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36. Name the British Tv Actress who committed
suicide after the last episode of her teleserial
“Belonging” which was present on BBC Wales?
Stephanie Parker
Mohun Bagan
42. Who was named as the English Professional
Footballers' Association (PFA) Player of the Year for
37. Who has been appointed as the new Supreme Court the first time despite starting just 12 league games this
Registrar of India?
season?
Ashok Menon
Ryan Giggs (Manchester United)
38. Who is the 16th Chief election commissioner of
India?
Naveen Chawla
39. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev removed the
head of the powerful military intelligence agency
recently after he opposed sweeping reforms of the
country's lumbering armed forces. Who is he?
General Valentin Korabelnikov
40. Who is appointed as the new chief and managing
director (CMD) of Air India
Mr. E.K. Bharat Bhushan
41. Who defeated I-League champions Churchill
Brothers by 2-1 in the one-off Super Cup tie at the
Devilal Sports Complex in Gurgaon on 26th April and
won their third trophy of the season?
43. Bollywood actor once called “the Clint Eastwood
of the East” because of his maverick roles and manly
swagger, died recently at Bangalore?
Feroz Khan
44. World Cup Cricket -2011 final will be held in?
Wankade Stadium, Mumbai
The cricket world cup will be held in 3 countries.
29 matches in India, 12 matches in Sri Lanka, 8
matches in Bangladesh.
45. Indian Premiere League(IPL)-2009 Facts:
First Six of IPL 09-Abhishek Nayar
First Four (Boundary) of IPL 09-Sanath Jayasurya
First wicket of IPL 09-Thilan Thushara
First Man of the Match of IPL 09-Sachin Tendulkar
First Century of IPL 09-AB de villiers
CURRENT AFFAIRS - MARCH-2009
1. Women’s Cricket World Cup -2009 won by?
England. They beat New Zealand in the Final by 4
wickets Nicki Shaw was named player of the match
and Claire Taylor is the player of the tournament.
The first tournament was held in England in 1973
which also won by England. India never won the
World Cup
2. Women’s Cricket World Cup -2009 is held in ?
Australia.
Next world cup is in 2013 which will be held in India.
3. Who won the Man of the Match award in the first
Test between India and New Zealand at Hamilton,
New Zealand?
Sachin Tendulkar
4. Name the Hungarian Prime Minister resigned after
facing mounting criticism over his government's
handling of the country's economic crash.
Ferenc Gyurcsany
5. Who is reinstated as chief justice of Pakistani
Supreme Court after a series of protests and political
turmoil
Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry
6. First elected female state premier in its history of
Australia after a vote in Queensland. ?
Anna Bligh
7. Name the Sudanese opposition leader who has been
released from prison, having been detained for two
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months for calling on Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's
president, to hand himself over to the International
Criminal Court (ICC).?
Hassan al-Turabi
8. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Chief who
recently visited India to discuss the security situation
in South Asia.?
Leon Penetta
largest number of students in a single centre?
Sree Sankaracharya Computer Centre (SSCT), in
Kannur district
17. Who has been appointed as the next Ambassador
of India to the United States of America?
Meera Shankar
18. Name the Indian-American who last week was
appointed Federal Chief Technology Officer by
9. Former Indian captain who equalled Mark Waugh's President Barack Obama
world record of 181 Test catches in opening day of the Andry Rajoelina, he is only 34-year-old.
first Test against New Zealand at Seddon Park in
Hamilton?
Rahul Dravid
15. Who is appointed as the new chief of the Indian
Air Force?
10. Which country will host the second version of IPL, Air Marshal PV Naik
i.e. IPL-2009?
South Africa
16. Name the computer institute of Kerala which has
made an entry into the Limca Book of Records for the
11. Who has been selected for the 18th Aravindan
largest number of students in a single centre?
Award instituted by the Chalachithra Film Society?
Sree Sankaracharya Computer Centre (SSCT), in
Marathi film-maker Paresh Mokashi
Kannur district
12. British reality TV star died at the age of 27 with
cervical cancer, who became famous after appearing
on the UK’s Big Brother reality Show?
Jade Gudi
13. Who won World Boxing Association (WBA)
International and World Boxing Organisation (WBO)
Inter-Continental lightweight titles in this year?
British boxer Amir Khan
14. Who became Madagascar's acting president after
the army ended a months-long power struggle and
swept him to power?
Andry Rajoelina, he is only 34-year-old.
15. Who is appointed as the new chief of the Indian
Air Force?
Air Marshal PV Naik
16. Name the computer institute of Kerala which has
made an entry into the Limca Book of Records for the
17. Who has been appointed as the next Ambassador
of India to the United States of America?
Meera Shankar
18. Name the Indian-American who last week was
appointed Federal Chief Technology Officer by
President Barack Obama
Vivek Kundra,
He was reinstated to his job by Barack Obama at the
White House, five days after he went on leave
following Federal Bureau of Investigation's raids at his
previous office, in a corruption case related to
employees working there. He returned to the job after
it became clear that he was not the 'target of
investigations.
19. Name the Indian-American who is appointed as
Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs Washington
by U.S.President Barack Obama?
Richard Verma
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20. Name the Monster like father who held his
Daughter as Sex-Slave Prisoner in Cellar for 24 years
and gave birth to 7 children?
Joseph Fritzl
27. Who won the 20-20 Cricket series between South
Africa and Australia in
South Africa ?
South Africa
(They beat Australia by 2-0).
21. Country which has been suspended by The African
Union from the continental body, saying the
28. Who is appointed as the Second Deputy Prime
replacement of the island nation's president by an
Minister of Saudi Arabia?
army-backed politician constitutes a coup.
Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz
Madagascar
29. Who are the winners of Indian Open Badminton
Title in 2009 ?
22. Who was unanimously re-elected to North Korea's Men’s Single Title- Taufik Hidayat (Indonesia)
rubber-stamp parliament recently?
Women’s Single Title- Pi Hongyan ( France)
Kim Jong Il
30. First national female judge of Dubai?
23. The Russian Mobile Company which launched its Judge Ibtisam Rashid Badwawi
CDMA-based mobile services in Kerala circle after
Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan?
31. New Prime Minister of Israel ?
MTS, (Mobile Tele Systems)
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel's Likud party
MTS brand is under Sistema Shyam TeleServices
Limited which is a joint venture company between
32. Who is appointed as Administrator of the United
Sistema (LSE: SSA) of Russia and Shyam Group of
Nationals Development Programme(UNDP)?
India
Helen Clark
24. Which Tennis Player has won WTA Player of the
Year award-2009?
Serena Williams. This is her Second WTA Player of
the Year award. She won the same in 2002.
33. Who is named to the “Order of Companions of O R
Tambo in Gold”, one of the highest state honours of
South Africa?
Cuban President Fidel Castro
25. The first person to be certified as a survivor of both
US atomic bombings at the end of the Second World
War?
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a 93-year-old Japanese man who
was in Hiroshima on a business trip on 6 August 1945
when a US B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city.
34. Who is the new Prime Minister of Malaysia ?
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak
26. Which Indian will replace football star David
Beckham, who has been endorsing Motorola as its
global brand ambassador?
A.R.Rahman.
It is learnt that Rahman has been paid a whopping
Rs.28 Crore for this particular endorsement deal. This
makes him the highest paid Indian celebrity for any
such product.
35. The US billionaire who roared into space aboard a
Russian rocket, making history as the first tourist to
make the epic journey twice?
Charles Simonyi
36. The country which re-enters NATO's (North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation) military command after
more than 40 years?
France
37. Who has been appointed as the new Captain of Sri
Lankan Cricket Team?
Kumar Sangakkara
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38. Who wins Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best
Book Award for Europe and South Asia region ?
Jhumpa Lahiri for her book 'Unaccustomed Earth'
Madhukar Gupta, the present Home Secretary, retires
on March 31. At present G.K. Pillai is the Commerce
Secretary.
39. Who purchased Mahatma Gandhi’s personal
belongings which include Gandhiji’s iconic roundrimmed spectacles, a pocket watch, a pair of sandals, a
plate and bowl and letters of authenticity for USD 1.8
million at an auction in New York from the owner,
James Otis?
Vijay Mallya.
42. The president of Guinea-Bissau, who was
assassinated by the military in a retaliatory attack for
the killing of the army chief of the volatile and drugcorrupted west African state?.
Jo Bernardo Vieira
43. Fast bowler who has announced his retirement
from international cricket after eight years of service
40. Palestinian Prime Minister who submitted his
for South Africa?
resignation in a move that could help usher in a power- Andre Nel
sharing deal between Western-backed President
Mahmoud Abbas and his rivals in the militant group
44. The son of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath ,
Hamas?
46 years after his mother gassed herself while he slept?
Salam Fayyad
Nicholas Hughes
Sylvia Plath with her son Nicholas Hughe. He was
41. Home Secretary of India?
only a baby when she committed suicide.
Gopala Krishna Pillai. He would assume charge after
CURRENT AFFAIRS-FEBRUARY-2009
1. Name of the world’s cheapest car launched by Tata
Motors in Mumbai?
Nano
2. Music wizard A.R.Rahman won Oscars for which
categories?
Best Original Score and Best Original Song (Jai Ho)
for the film “Slum dog Millionaire”.
3. Which documentary won the Oscar award for best
Documentary (Short)?
Smile Pinki, directed by Megan Mylan depicts the tale
of an Utharpradesh girl and her fight against the social
stigma of a cleft lip.
4. The West Indian Umpire who has officiated in a
record 126 tests and 179 ODIs who decided to retire
recently from International matches?
Steve Bucknor
5. The Indian sound engineer who won Oscar for his
brilliant sound mixing works of the film “Slum dog
Millionaire”
Resul Pookutty
6. The new Chief Justice of Madras High Court ?
Hemant Laxman Gokhale
7. The telecom sector which started third Generation
(3G) mobile services recently in 11 cities of India?
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL)
8. Sri Lankan batsmen who smashed double hundreds
during world record stand of 437 for the fourth wicket
partnership against Pakistan?
Mahela Jayawardhane (240) and Thilan
Samaraweera(231)
9. Who won the Miss India Worldwide 2009 title ?
Nikkitasha Marhawa, Indian-American from Chicago
clinch the 18th Miss India World wide 2009 title.
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10. The new money back plan launched by Life
Insurance Corporation (LIC)in February 16 ?
Jeevan Varsha
11. Who was named Jamaica’s Sportsman of the year
for 2008 ?
Triple Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt.
12. The teenager who acted as the main character of
“slum dog millionaire ” ?
Dev Patel
13. Which novel has been chosen as the Romantic
Novel of the year 2009?
“East of the Sun” set in 1920s by Welsh author Julia
Gregson
A.R.Rahman won the BAFTA award for the music of
this film.
21. Name of India’s Second humanoid robot which
was formally unveiled during Quark-2009, the
technical festival at Goa?
Acyut-2
22. Name the Indian who awarded a honorary
Doctorate of Letters by the University of Cambridge,
where he served as the Master of Trinity College for
six years.
Amartya Sen
23. Who was named African Footballer of the Year
2008?
Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor
14. Britan’s Royal Mail issued a set of stamps on
February-12 to mark the 200th Anniversary of the birth 24. Name the Union Minister for Small Scale
of a famous Scientist? Who is he ?
Industries in the UPA government who was on charged
Charles Darwin
in a murder case recently ?
Mahavir Prasad
15. Who is appointed as coach/manager of Chelsea, the
premier league club ?
25. The two ships, commissioned by the Indian Navy
Guus Hiddink, Russian coach
on 16 February 2009, at Chennai, which are the first
two in a series of ten water jet Fast Attack Craft (FAC)
16. Recently the IPL Drug Tribunal has imposed a 12- being built at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and
month ban on a Pakistani Cricket player for consuming Engineers, GRSE, Kolkata ?.
a banned substance, Nandralone during the inaugural
INS Carnicobar and INS Chetlat
season of Indian Premiere League. Who is he?
Muhammed Asif
26. Name the 13-YEAR-OLD boy who has become a
father in Britain, his wife is just 15.
17. The new Prime Minister of Zimbzbwe ?
Alfie Patten. His girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave
Morgan Tsvangirai
birth to Maisie Roxanne in Eastbourne Hospital, East
Sussex
18. Newly elected President of Bangladesh ?
Zillur Rahman
27. 17th Dulip Trophy Cricket title is won by?
19. Noted Hindustani Classical Vocalist who was
West Zone
presented with Bharath Ratna, country’s highest
civilian award ?
28. Which Indian player won BCCI Payer of the year
Bhim Sen Joshi
Award?
Virender Sehwag (The award is also known as Polly
20. "”Slumdog Millionire “ got how many BAFTA
Umrigar Award)
awards (British Academy of film and Television Arts)
7 awards including Best Director, Best Film…etc
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29. The Indian Musician among the four international
musicians to be awarded Grammy for their ‘Global
Drum’ project. ?
Zakir Hussain, along with musicians Mickey Hart,
Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni Hidalgo, has been
awarded the coveted gramophone for ‘The Global
Drum’ in the Best Contemporary World Music Album
category.
2. WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREEN PLAY)
Dustin Lance Black (MILK)
3. WRITING (ADAPTED SCREEN PLAY)
Simon Beaufoy (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE)
4. ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
30. Which players were named joint winners of the
Allan Border medal of 2008?
Ricky Ponting and Michael Clark
31. Who won the Australian Open junior title ?
Yuki Bhambri. He becomes the first Indian to win the
Australian Open junior title. He outplayed his German
opponent Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas to win
the Junior Boys title in the Australian Open.
32. Who won the Australian Open women singles title
of this year ?
Serena Williams
33. Who won the Man of the Match award in the two
20-20 Cricket matches between India and New
Zealand?
Brendon McCullum
Andrew Stanton (WALL-E)
5. SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Kunio Kato( LA MAISON EN PETITS CUBES)
6. ART DIRECTION
Donald Graham Burt (Art Direction); Victor J. Zolfo
(Set Decoration) (THE CURIOUS CASE OF
BENJAMIN BUTTON)
7. COSTUME DESIGN
Michael O'Connor (THE DUCHESS)
8. MAKE UP
34. Who won Rotterdam Open title after beating world Greg Cannom (THE CURIOUS CASE OF
number one Rafael Nadal?
BENJAMIN BUTTON)
Andy Murray of Britain
35. World Cup Cricket 2010 final will be held in which 9. CINEMATOGRAPHY
venue ?
Delhi
Anthony Dod Mantle (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE)
36. Japan's Finance Minister who has resigned, amid
claims that he was drunk at a recent G7 meeting?
Shoichi Nakagawa
10. SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Jochen Alexander Freydank (SPIELZEUGLAND
(TOYLAND)
81 ST OSCAR AWARDS- ALL RESULTS
1. ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
11. ACTOR IN SUPPORTING ROLE
Heath Ledger (THE DARK KNIGHT)
Penelope Cruz (VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA)
12. DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
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James Marsh and Simon Chinn (MAN ON WIRE)
21. BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
13. DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Megan Mylan (SMILE PINKI)
Sean Penn (MILK)
14. VISUAL EFFECTS:
Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
(THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON)
15. SOUND EDITING
Richard King (THE DARK KNIGHT)
16. SOUND MIXING
Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
(SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE)
22. BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Kate Winslet (THE READER)
23. JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
(SPECIAL HONOR)
Jerry Lewis (Comedic film and humanitarian work)
17. FILM EDITING
Chris Dickens ((SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE)
18. BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
DEPARTURES – Japan
24. BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
19. BEST FEATURE FILM.
Smile Pinki –( Director-Megan Mylan )
SLUM DOG MILLIONAIRE
25. BEST ORIGINAL SONG
20. BEST DIRECTOR
Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman
(music), Gulzar (lyrics)
26. BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Danny Boyle (SLUM DOG MILLIONAIRE)
A. R. Rahman (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE )
CURRENT AFFAIRS - JANUARY 2009
1. The new federal agency approved by the Indian
Government to combat terror in India which will be
empowered to deal with terror related crimes across
states without special permission from the state ?
National Investigation Agency.
Albie Morkel
2. Who is appointed as Director General of the newly
established National Investigation Agency (NIA).?
Radha Vinod Raju, Special Director General of Police
in Jammu and Kashmir
5. The first Indian to win the prestigious Golden Globe
Award for Best Original Music Score ?
A.R.Rahman for Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire.
Rahman’s song ‘Jai Ho,’ penned by lyricist Gulzar,
was nominated for Best Original Music Score.
3. “Man of the series” of recently held One Day series
between Australia & South Africa?
4. Who became the country’s youngest international
referee, after passing the world body FIBA’s exam ?
Zanim Mohammed Hashim from Thalassery, Kerala
6. Which Malayalam Writer won the “Odakkuzhal
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Award ” ?
K.G.Sankara Pillai
14. Indian sound engineer from Mumbai, born in
Kerala, nominated for the Oscars for Best sound
mixing in 'Slumdog Millionaire’?
7. Who became the fastest bowler to take 50 wickets in Rasool Pookutty
one-day internationals ?
Ajantha Mendis , completed his 50-wicket haul in his 15. Which film won most number of Oscar
19th one-day international. He surpassed the record of Nominations in 2008?
India's Ajit Agarkar who took 23 matches to reach the “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” with 13 Oscar
milestone.
nominations.
8. Who has been appointed as the General Counsel and
Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Management
and Budget in the upcoming administration of
U.S.President Barack Obama?
Preeta Bansal, Leading Indian-American lawyer
16. Name the founder and Chairman of Satyam
Computers until January 7, 2009 when he resigned
from the Satyam board after admitting to corporate
fraud of 7000 crore rupees ?
Ramalinga Raju
9. Name the Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile
with speeds of Mach 2.5 to 2.8, which is world's fastest
cruise missile and is about three and a half times faster
than the U.S.A's subsonic Harpoon cruise missile?
Brahmos, The acronym 'BrahMos' is perceived as the
confluence of the two nations represented by two great
rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of
Russia.
17. The son of former Liberian President Charles
Taylor Sr., who was sentenced to 97 years in prison for
charges including torture and conspiracy, according to
a federal court in Florida. ?
Charles McArthur Emmanuel
He also known as Charles "Chuckie" Taylor Jr.
10. Who is the Man of the Series in the recently held
Zimbabwe –Bangladesh One Day Series held in
Bangladesh?
Shakib Al Hasan
11. The first Bangladesh player to top one of the
International Cricket Council's player rankings?
Shakib Al Hasan He tops the ICC ODI Rankings for
all-rounders
12. Jharkhand Chief Minister who resigned from his
post following his defeat in the Tamar assembly bypoll?
Shibu Soren
13. Music Sensation A.R.Rahman won how many
Oscar nominations for the film “Slumdog
Millionaire”?
Three nominations (Music, Songs (Jai Ho, O Saya))
18. Who is BBC African Footballer of the Year 2008
Egyptian footballer Mohamed Aboutrika
19. The new model car launched by Fiat India
Automobiles Ltd in India during fist quarter of 2009.
Fiat Linea
20. Who is the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab?
Sukhbir Singh Badal
21. The 50th anniversary of the Triumph of a country’s
Revolution is observed on this year January? Which
revolution?
Cuban Revolution
22. The Three Indian cricketing legends, who figured
among the 55 former players named in the ICC`s
inaugural Hall of Fame list as part of its centenary
celebrations ?
Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Bishan Singh Bedi
23. The Chief Financial Officer of Satyam Computers,
who was remanded to judicial custody charged with
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criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery of accounts.
Srinivas Vadlamani
24. Who is the new President of Ghana?
John Atta Mills
25. Name of the Bacteria developed by Australian
Scientists to prevent Dengue Fever by infecting the
dengue mosquito with that bacterium which halves its
lifespan?
Wolbachia bacterium
30. Prem Nazir Award is won by?
Malayalam Actor, Jayaram
31. The fourth Thikkurissi Foundation Award is won
by?
Malayalam Actor, Balachandra Menon
32. Dadasaheb Phalke award winner and noted filmmaker who died recently at a hospital in Kolkata after
a prolonged illness?
Tapan Sinha
26. Who became the youngest chief Minister of Jammu
& Kashmir?
33. The Australian Cricketer who retired recently from
Omar Abdulla
international cricket?
Mathew Hayden
27. Who is the deputy chief minister of Jammu and
Kashmir?
34. Which player’s performance is counted as the best
Tara Chand
ever Test Innings of 2008 selected by Cricinfo?
Virender Sehwag, his double century against Sri Lanka
28. Which team won the Ranji Trophy for the season
Best Bowling performance : Dale Steyn against
2008-2009?
Australia in Melbourne , he took 5 wicket s for 67
Mumbai, they beat Utharpradesh to clinch the title.
runs.
29. Who is the fifth New Zealand Cricket player to
score a century in his debut?
Martin Guptill, he scored 122 runs (not out) against
West Indies in his debut match
35. The first player in the history of cricket to score
10,000 runs and 250wickets in both tests and One Day
internationals?
Jacques Kallis
Current Affairs – December 2008
1.The terrorist organization in Pakistan which is
banned by United Nations in respect of the Mumbai
attacks ?
Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the front organisation of the
banned Lashkar-e-Toiba
2. Which Indian player honoured with Doctorate by
Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institution
University?
Sania Mirza
3. Chief Minister of Maharashtra?
Asok Chavan
4. Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra?
Chhagan Bhujbal
5. The first Indian Badminton player to reach in the top
10 spot of the World Woman Badminton Rankings.?
Saina Nehwal , Currently ranked number 10, Saina is
the first Indian woman to reach the singles
quarterfinals at the Olympics and the first Indian to
win the World Junior Badminton Championships.
6. Which Malayalam poet won the “Mathrubhumi
Literacy Prize “?
Akkitham Aczyuthan Nampoothirippad
7. The Chief Minister of Maharashtra who resigned
from office in the wake up of Mumbai Terrorist
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Attacks?
Vilas Rao Desmukh
8. The new Defence Secretary of United States?
Robert Gates
17. Who won the European Footballer of the Year
Award-2008 ?
Cristiano Ronaldo, this Portugal Player is playing for
Manchester United
18. Britain has launched an International Growth
9. The Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra who
Centre (IGC) described as a 'global brains trust' led by
resigned from office in light of the Mumbai carnage?
the University of Oxford and the London School of
R.R.Patil
Economics to promote economic growth in developing
countries. A noted Indian-origin economist, who has
10. The famous football player who visited India and
vast experience in the global development policy
inaugurated “The Indian Football School” in Kolkatta? community, is appointed as the centre's executive
Diego Maradona
director. Who is he?
Gobind Nankani
11. The famous American football player who was
sentenced to a total of 33 years in prison on December 19. Veteran Malayalam writer who was presented the
5, 2008?
prestigious Padmaprabha literary prize?
O.J.Simpson
U. A. Khadar, a leading short story writer, was chosen
for the honour in view of his outstanding contribution
12. Well known cardiologist in Canada, who originally to Malayalam literature. The award was instituted in
hails from Kerala, has been honoured with the highest memory of freedom fighter and Socialist Padmaprabha
award of the American Heart Society and European
Gowder.
Society of Cardiology?
Dr Salim Yusuf.
20. Russian presidential term is extended to how many
years?
13. The Man of the Series of recently held Srilanka6 Years
Zimbabwe One day series held in Zimbabwe?
The term of the Russian President is extended from 4
Ajantha Mendis
years to 6 years.
14. The new Vice Chancellor of Sri Sankarachatrya
Sanskrit University of Kaladi in Kerala?
Dr. J. Prasad
21. Name the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at -- but
missed -- President Bush during a news conference in
Baghdad, where Bush was making a farewell visit.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi
15. Leading NRI entrepreneur who has scripted history
by becoming the first Asian deputy speaker of the
22. Two Indians have been ranked among the 50 most
British House of Lords.
powerful people in the world by the prestigious USSwraj Paul
based magazine Newsweek magazine in a list topped
by U.S.President Barack Obama.Who are they?
16. Name of the film which won the Golden Peacock
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Bollywood
award and a cash prize of Rs.4 million on the
superstar Shahrukh Khan
concluding day of the 39th International Film Festival
of India in Panaji. ?
23. Who won the World Heavy Weight Title which
“Tulpan”, A Kazakhstan film directed by Sergei
was held in Zurich ?
Dvortsevoy who also bagged the most promising
Nikolai Valuev of Russia. He defeated, Ivander
director's award.
Holyfield of America
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24. Which team won the Federation Cup football
Tournament?
Mohan Bagan
25. Name of the Malayalam Writer who won the
Kendra Sahithya Academy Award in 2008 for his
collection of essays in Malayalam posthumously?
Sri. K. P. Appan. He got this award for his book
“Madhuram Ninte Jeevitham”
26. The Indian who is appointed as the Mayor of
California?
Dr.Prakash Narayanan (Bihar)
27. Who won the Man of the Series Award in the
recently held 2 test match series between India &
England?
Saheer Khan
28. Who is selected as the Indian Footballer of the
Year-2008?
Baichung Bhutia
29. The new Chief Minister of Delhi?
Sheela Dixit
30. The New Miss World is?
Zenia Sukhinova (Russia)
31. The First runner-up of Miss World 2008?
Parvathy Omanakuttan
32. Chief Minister of Rajasthan?
Ashok Gehlot
33. The former Rwandan army colonel who was
sentenced to life in prison by the United Nations
tribunal for genocide and crimes against humanity for
masterminding the killings of more than half a million
people in a 100-day slaughter in 1994?
Theoneste Bagosora.
34. ISRO got 200 Crore profit by making satellite to a
European Communication Company. This is the first
time ISRO making satellite for a foreign customer.
Name the company?
EADS Astrium, a European space company
35. The Intergovernmental Institution for the use of
Micro-algae Spirulina against Malnutrition (IIMSAM)
has appointed an Indian Actor as its Goodwill
Ambassador to achieve the United Nations Millennium
Development Goals for eradication of malnutrition and
hunger. Who is he?
Sanjay Dutt
36. Who is the new C.E.O and Managing Director of
ICICI ?
Chanda Kochar
37. The former Deputy Chairman of F.B.I, otherwise
known as "Deep Throat," died recently at the age of
95,who leaked key information to The Washington
Post during the Watergate scandal which led to
President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974 ?
W. Mark Felt
38. Indian Union Minority Affairs Minister, resigned
from office at the centre of a storm triggered by his
remarks on the circumstances surrounding Maharashtra
ATS chief Hemant Karkare's killing ?
A R Antulay
39. The first batsman in the world who has scored
more than 8000 runs at the number 3 position?
Rahul Dravid
40. The country retained top spot in the latest FIFA
World Rankings with Germany moving up a place to
second.?
Spain
41. The new Prime Minister of Thailand ?
'King of the Ring’ Vitali Klitschko,
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Current Affairs - November-2008
1.Who is appointed as the Chief Coach of Pak
Cricket Academy?
Ans: Salim Malik
2.Who won the Man of the Match Award in the
recently held 4th test match between India &
Australia in Nagpur?
Ans:Ishant Sharma, India won this match by 172
runs
3.The fourth test between India and Australia in
Nagpur was an Indian Player’s farewell match. ?
Who was he?
Ans:Saurav Ganguly
4.The African singer died recently also known as
“Mama Africa," famous also for her fight against
apartheid?
10.The new home minister of India?
Ans:P.Chidambaram
11.The home minister resigned from his office
owing a moral responsibility for the terror attack
that rocked Mumbai killing several people?
Ans: Shivraj Patil
12.The Finance Minister of India?
Ans: Dr.Manmohan Singh
13. Who has been unanimously elected president of
the Editors Guild of India. ?
Ans: Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief of the CNNIBN Network
14. Who is the new king of Bhutan?
Ans: Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Ans: Miriam Makeba
5.Which former Indian Cricket player is recently
included in the technical committee of BCCI which
is headed by Sunil Gaveskar ?
Ans:Saurav Ganguly
6.Who got “Bharat Ratna”, the prestigious award of
India for his contribution to Hindustani Music?
Ans: Bheemsen Joshi
7.Which Indian actress has won the Silver Hugo
Award for best actress at the 44th edition of Chicago
International Film Festival?
Ans:Preity Zinta, got this award for her performance
in Deepa Mehta's “Heaven on Earth”.
8.Who is appointed as the new foreign secretary of
United States?
Ans:Hilari Clinton
9.The famous south Indian actor died recently who
is excelled in the role of villain characters?
Ans:M.N.Nambiar
15. The new surface-to-surface missile successfully
test-fired by India from the Integrated Test Range
(ITR) at Balasore in Orissa?
Ans:Shourya
16.The new Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi
University ?
Ans:Dr.Rajan Gurukkal
17.Which team won the Asian Champions League
Football title?
Ans:Gamba Osaka
18.Who is appointed as honorary economic adviser
to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh?
Ans:Raghuram Rajan
19.Which state won the National Junior Athletics
Title held in Mysore, Karnataka?
Ans:Kerala (35 Gold, 32 silver, 22 Bronze)
Second Place: Tamil Nadu (18 Gold, 16 silver, 16
Bronze)
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20.Barack Obama is the ……th president Of United
States?
Ans: 44
30. Which Indian batsman completed 6000 runs
during the one day series against England?
Ans:Virendra Sehwag
21. Vice President of United States?
Ans: Joe Biden
31. The famous pop singer who converts to Islam
and changed his name to “Mikaeel”. ?
Ans: Michael Jackson
21.Noted Bollywood filmmaker, passed away
recently who produced one of the most popular
serial, “Mahabharat”?
Ans:B.R.Chopra
22.Who has won the gold in the men’s 10 meter air
rifle event with a world record score in the World
Cup Finals in Bangkok?
Ans: Gagan Narang
23.Indian-American who was appointed to serve on
President Barack Obama's official 15-member
transition board is?
Ans:Sonal Shah
24.Which film won the 13th Annual Satyajit Ray
Award, 2008 in the recent London Film Festival?
Ans: Italian film “MID AUGUST LUNCH”
25.The new president of Zambia?
Ans:Rupiah Banda
26.The Indian Cricketer also known as “Jumbo”
who retired from International Career in the recently
held test match against Australia in Delhi ?
Ans:Anil Kumble
27. Who got the first “V.K.Krishna Menon” Award
?
Ans:Supreme Court Chief Justice K.G.Balakrishnan
28. Who won the World Junior Badminton Title?
Ans: Saina Nehwal
29. Which Indian Scientist recently got the
Commonwealth International Felloship of Rs. 50
Lakhs?
Ans:Sandhya Sukumaran
32.The actor who got the “Panampilly Prathibha
Puraskar ” ?
Ans: Mohanlal
33. Which Hindi poet got the 2005 Jnanpith Award
recently?
Ans: Kunwar Narayan
34.Jnanpith Award 2006 is shared by 2 writers. Who
are they?
Ans: Satya Vrat Shastri (or Satyavrat Shastri),
Sanskrit scholar and Ravindra Kelekar, Konkani
writer.
35.The new Foreign Secretary of United States?
Ans: Hilary Clinton
36. The winner of National Billiards Championship?
Ans:Pankaj Adwani, he defeated Geeth Sethi,
former world champion to clinch the title.
37.The famous dramatist and Oscar-nominated
playwright died recently who is best known for his
famous play “The Miracle Worker” is,
Ans: William Gibson, his other works are “Two for
The Seesaw”, “Golden Boy”
38.The terrorists attacked the Mumbai Hotels Taj,
Oberoi Trident, Nariman House on ?
Ans:26 th November 2008
39. The three top Police officers killed in the
Mumbai Terrorists attacks are?
1. Hemant Karkare- Maharashtra Anti Terrorist
Squad Chief
2. Vijay Salaskar- Mumbai Police "encounter
specialist"
3. Ashok Kamte- Additional Police Commissioner
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40. The NSG commando who has been killed by the
terrorists in the Mumbai attacks?
Ans:Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan
41. The former Prime Minister died recently who
will be remembered most for ordering the
implementation of the Mandal Commission
recommendations favouring reservation for the
OBCs in government jobs?
Ans: Viswanath Prathap Singh
42. The terrorist organization who claimed
responsibility for the Mumbai attacks?
Ans:Deccan Mujahideen
43. The goal keeper died recently who is considered
as one of the best goalkeepers India has ever
produced?
Ans:Peter Thankaraj
44.Which Australian player completed 100 test
matches in the series against New Zealand?
Ans:Mathew Hayden, he is the 11th Australian
player to do so.
45.The new D.G.P of Kerala State?
Ans: Jacob Punnoose